Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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• Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

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  Good Night, Positive Thinking, Anxiety

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• There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

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  Order, World, Requirements

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

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  Motivational, Art, Work

  "Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School" by Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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  It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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  Waste, Terrible

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• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

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  People, Saint

  "May Peace Be with You, Kurt Vonnegut" by Harvey Wasserman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2007.

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• A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

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  Insane, Sane, Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.91, RosettaBooks

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• We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

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  Hipster, Religion, Different

  "A Man Without a Country: A Memoir Of Life In George W Bush's America". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

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• For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

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  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

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• If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Progress

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

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• Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

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  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

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  Want, Kind, Standing On The Edge

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Oct 01, 2012

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• Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

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  Writing, Stories, Radio

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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• Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

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  Years, Wife, Littles

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.104, Melville House

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• Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

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  Differences, Tough Times, Magic

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• And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

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  Responsibility, Steps, Turns

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.312, Dial Press

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• Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

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  People

  "Kurt Vonnegut: Letters". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

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  Stupid, Men, Lovely

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.256, Dial Press

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• The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

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  Clever, People, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.69, Random House

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• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

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  Funny, Mad, Water

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• Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

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  Running, Hate, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

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  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

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  Practice, Astonishment, Disorder

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2005.

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• He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

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  Wings, Laughing, Goes On

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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