The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t l…

Kurt Vonnegut
638 citations
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Cat's Cradle: A Novel, p.98, Dial Press
Love Reading
19

More Author Quotes

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Dell Books
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one … ▶
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1973). Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!, Dell
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. ✨ Kurt Vonne … ▶
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious … ▶

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Cat's Cradle: A Novel, p.98, Dial Press

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes