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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Kurt Vonnegut
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
Kurt Vonnegut
Each one of us has to be what he or she is.
Kurt Vonnegut
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.
Kurt Vonnegut
I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
Kurt Vonnegut
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
Kurt Vonnegut
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
Kurt Vonnegut
The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
Kurt Vonnegut
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
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
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
Kurt Vonnegut
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
Kurt Vonnegut
The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
Kurt Vonnegut
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
Kurt Vonnegut
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
Kurt Vonnegut
