Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt Vonnegut
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.
Literature
May
Hipster
Springtime
Afternoon
Concern
Late
More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
Kurt Vonnegut
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
Kurt Vonnegut
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.
Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
Kurt Vonnegut
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Kurt Vonnegut
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Kurt Vonnegut
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
Kurt Vonnegut
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Kurt Vonnegut
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
Kurt Vonnegut
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
Kurt Vonnegut
Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
Kurt Vonnegut
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
