Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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.
Made
Odd
Fear
More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
Kurt Vonnegut
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
Kurt Vonnegut
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing in this book is true.
Kurt Vonnegut
The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
Kurt Vonnegut
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
Kurt Vonnegut
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
Kurt Vonnegut
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Kurt Vonnegut
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
Kurt Vonnegut
Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.
Kurt Vonnegut
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
Kurt Vonnegut
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.
Kurt Vonnegut
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.
Kurt Vonnegut
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.
Kurt Vonnegut
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
