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

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press
  • How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press
  • In this world, you get what you pay for.

    World   Pay   Cradle  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press
  • "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

    Fear   Hate   Hard Work  
    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.
  • Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.
  • Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

  • The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

    Cradle   Form   Treason  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.98, Dial Press
  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.41, Dial Press
  • Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

    Cat   Animal   Squirrels  
    "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.
  • She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

    Writing   Thinking   Fool  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
  • All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
  • Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

    Wings   Feet   Tin  
  • Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.97, Dial Press
  • Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

    Men   Knowing   Cradle  
    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.
  • She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press
  • There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

    Love   Life   People  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.18, Dial Press
  • If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

    Lying   Writing   Men  
    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.
  • As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

    Stupid   Men   Lovely  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.256, Dial Press
  • In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

  • And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

    Song   Cat   Boys  
    Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974
  • Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press
  • Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

    FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016
  • See the cat? See the cradle?

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.179, Dial Press
  • Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

    Lying   Book   Cradle  
  • After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

    Father   Cities   America  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press
  • I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

    Children   War   Holiday  
    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 114, 1963.
  • The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

    Book   Thoughtful   Past  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.245, Dial Press
  • Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  • A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

    Liars   Lying   Eye  
  • Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

    Ideas   Pay   Attention  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press
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