35 Quotations by Kurt Vonnegut
- 1. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- 2. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explinations. It si ...
- 3. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been ...
- 4. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena ...
- 5. Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person ...
- 6. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living ...
- 7. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
- 8. During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldi ...
- 9. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
- 10. Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to ...
- 11. History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- 12. How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- 13. I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, rea ...
- 14. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- 15. I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at le ...
- 16. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o ...
- 17. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- 18. If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
- 19. Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
- 20. It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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