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What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Kurt Vonnegut

Alive Said Communicate

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.39, Dial Press

2397
People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

People Feels Entitled

573
As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

Kurt Vonnegut

Angel Names Matter

Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

5083
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Kurt Vonnegut

Looks Sometimes Wonder

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press

547
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

Kurt Vonnegut

Country Ideas Usa

471
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Kurt Vonnegut

Religious Luck Awful

Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House

998
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

Kurt Vonnegut

Brother Oxygen Band

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

1674
It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

Kurt Vonnegut

Angel Heaven Wish

Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

3218
No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes Commentary

Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

4087
I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sex Men America

3232
Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!

Kurt Vonnegut

Heart Eye Molecules

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

402
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

Kurt Vonnegut

School Nuts Class

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.102, Seven Stories Press

4663
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Kurt Vonnegut

Complicated Cradle Machinery

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

2170
The arts are not a way to make a living.

Kurt Vonnegut

Art Way Breakfast Of Champions

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

821
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

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Beautiful Ugly Things People

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

969
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

Kurt Vonnegut

Doctors Barns Want

4868
The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

Kurt Vonnegut

Dog Morning War

KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

3501
We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

Kurt Vonnegut

Outsiders British Colony

1553
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

Kurt Vonnegut

Writing Ideas Doe

Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

618
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Kurt Vonnegut

Power Thinking Brain

Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

1301
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Kurt Vonnegut

Black Slave Property

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

4502
Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Kurt Vonnegut

Mean Chicago Degrees

"Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

1944
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?

Kurt Vonnegut

Relief Literature Realizing

1334
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. 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 possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut

Art Hurt Writing

4421
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.

Kurt Vonnegut

Father War Home

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

1098
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

Kurt Vonnegut

Men Thinking Fire

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.247, Dial Press

2888
How embarrassing it is to be human.

Kurt Vonnegut

Embarrassing Humans

2001
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut

Nature Earth Environment

"If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.

3332
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sweet Atheist Crazy

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

218
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

Kurt Vonnegut

Writing Opportunity Palm Sunday

Kurt Vonnegut (1981). “Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage”

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Kurt Vonnegut quotes about: Accidents Age Alcohol Angels Animals Apologizing Army Art Atheism Atheist Babies Belief Birds Bitterness Blame Books Brothers Business Cats Chaos Character Chemistry Children Christ Christianity Church Cigarettes College Communication Community Compassion Competition Computers Conscience Constitution Country Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Critics Culture Curiosity Dancing Democracy Design Dignity Dogs Doubt Dreams Drugs Dying Earth Enemies Energy Evil Evolution Existence Of God Expectations Eyes Fathers Feelings Fighting Film Food Forgiveness Free Will Frustration Fun Funny Giving God Great Depression Guns Happiness Hard Work Hate Heart Heaven Hell High School Hiroshima Home Human Nature Humanity Hurt Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Jazz Jesus Joy Just War Language Laughter Libraries Life Literature Loneliness Love Luck Lying Making Love Making Money Management Mankind Maturity Meaning Of Life Military Miracles Mistakes Mothers Mountain Music Nature Opinions Opportunity Pain Painting Parents Parties Past Personality Philosophy Pirates Police Politicians Politics Progress Public Libraries Purpose Purpose Of Life Reading Reality Religion Revenge Running Safety Saints School Science Science Fiction Shame Short Stories Slaves Sleep Smoking Socialism Soldiers Son Soul Students Stupidity Style Survival Teachers Teaching Technology Terror Time Today Trade Tragedy Train Universe Values Veterans Vietnam War Waiting Wall War War Of The Worlds Water Wife Work Writing

Kurt Vonnegut

Born: November 11, 1922
Died: April 11, 2007
Occupation: Writer

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