Kurt VonnegutYou know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.371Thought
Kurt VonnegutAll persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1998). Timequake, p.18, Penguin371DeathLifeTime
Kurt VonnegutWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.… ▶372LifeReading
Kurt VonnegutWhat is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? ✨ Jailbird. Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 24, 1979.372LifeReading
Kurt VonnegutThe triumph of anything is a matter of organization. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2007). The Sirens of Titan, p.167, Dial Press372Hope
Kurt VonnegutThinking 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 (1988). Conversations w… ▶372HumanityPoliticsThought
Kurt VonnegutYou don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.351Philosophy
Kurt VonnegutWhy were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part pl… ▶351Politics
Kurt VonnegutHe was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.351Hope
Kurt VonnegutI now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enth… ▶351Thought
Kurt VonnegutWhen I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut: In His Own Words. The Times (London), April 12, 2007.373Time
Kurt VonnegutTeaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2013). If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young, p.31, RosettaBooks373Reading
Kurt VonnegutIt's all like an ocean! cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!, CNIB, 197341Life
Kurt VonnegutNo matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonde… ▶363LovePolitics
Kurt VonnegutThe function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2013). If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young, p.7, Rosetta… ▶374HumanityLifeReading
Kurt VonnegutReading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about. ✨ Ku… ▶341Reading
Kurt VonnegutWell here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.341Reflection
Kurt VonnegutIf this isn't nice, I don't know what is. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2008). Armageddon in Retrospect, p.18, Penguin341Reading
Kurt Vonnegutthe late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Deadeye Dick, Delacorte Press364Death
Kurt VonnegutThat’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Kurt Vonnegut: The Last I… ▶353Thought
Kurt VonnegutI say the same thing about the death of James Wait. Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.331Death
Kurt VonnegutThe champagne was dead. So it goes. ✨ KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE353DeathHumor
Kurt VonnegutThe worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes th… ▶375HumanityTimeTruth
Kurt VonnegutWhat a bummer it is to be a human being. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.9, Seven Stories Press353Humanity
Kurt VonnegutWhen a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Cat's Cradle: A Nove… ▶364ReadingThought
Kurt VonnegutThere were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.343Time
Kurt VonnegutDo not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.321Reading
Kurt VonnegutEvery sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Grou… ▶376Reflection
Kurt VonnegutThe arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.24, Seven Stories Press376HumanityLife
Kurt VonnegutI was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ✨ The Observer, December 27, 1987.365HumanityThought
