Kurt Vonnegut quotes - page 2

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. (Kurt Vonnegut)
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. View quote
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We don't piss in your ashtrays, So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals. View quote
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. View quote
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. View quote
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. View quote
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. View quote
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. View quote
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. View quote
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to. View quote
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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. View quote
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! View quote
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery. View quote
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. View quote
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. View quote
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Make love when you can. It's good for you. View quote
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All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons. View quote
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land Man got to tell himself he understand. View quote
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Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. (Kurt Vonnegut)
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all? View quote
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Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not. View quote
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. View quote
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. View quote
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