35 Quotations by Kurt Vonnegut
- 21. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since ...

- 22. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in ...

- 23. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem ...

- 24. New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the rich ...

- 25. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have ...

- 26. Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either ...

- 27. The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, ...

- 28. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

- 29. There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. Th ...

- 30. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dyin ...

- 31. We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

- 32. Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The ...

- 33. What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

- 34. Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom wh ...

- 35. You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you w ...

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