28 Quotations by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- 1. About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilitie ...
- 2. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena ...
- 3. Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu ...
- 4. Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe ...
- 5. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo ...
- 6. I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" and I would like out, p ...
- 7. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- 8. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o ...
- 9. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver ...
- 10. I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
- 11. If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can ...
- 12. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- 13. It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
- 14. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to con ...
- 15. Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but ...
- 16. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remed ...
- 17. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terri ...
- 18. The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi ...
- 19. The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
- 20. The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled ...
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