Quote

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

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.
Everybody
Favourite
Another
Flaws
Character
Novelists
Human
Destruction
Flaw
Humans
Build
Maintenance
Nobody
Imperfection
Building
Defects
Wants
Flawed

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
Kurt Vonnegut