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That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.
Kurt Vonnegut
Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
Kurt Vonnegut
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
Kurt Vonnegut
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.
Kurt Vonnegut
I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
Kurt Vonnegut
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
Kurt Vonnegut
You become who you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
Kurt Vonnegut
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
Kurt Vonnegut
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
Kurt Vonnegut
if there is a god, he sure hates people
Kurt Vonnegut
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
Kurt Vonnegut
There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.
Kurt Vonnegut
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
Kurt Vonnegut
You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut
Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
Kurt Vonnegut
