Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Literature
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
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I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.
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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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