Quote

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

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.
Work
Regaining
Equilibrium
Plot
Popular
Basic
Losing
Fiction
Keep

More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Image
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Never index your own book.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
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