Kurt Vonnegut's quote

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( /ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical leftist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Mother Night

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. Timequake

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

Dance Like No One is Watching... Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before... Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. A Man Without a Country

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. Slaughterhouse-Five

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. Breakfast Of Champions

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. The Sirens of Titan

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. A Man Without a Country

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

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Slaughterhouse-Five

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.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. A Man Without a Country

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. Timequake

If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too." Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Slapstick

Make love when you can. It's good for you. Mother Night

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Slaughterhouse-Five

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. Slaughterhouse-Five

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Science is magic that works. Cat’s Cradle

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. Hocus Pocus