Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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.
Little
Appreciate
Plausible
Make
Speech
Speeches
People
Asked
Reply
Bits
Beatles
Least
Pulled
Alive
Mission
Artist
Missions
Littles
Artists

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Nothing in this book is true.
Kurt Vonnegut