Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, 1922 - 2007
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- Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything? permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard (1987) - 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. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Interview with David Hoppe, Utne Reader (May/June 2003) - Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1963) - Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country (2005) - Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Even crazier than golf, though, is modern American politics, where, thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - "Cold Turkey" essay for In These Times (2004) - Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby — that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - 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. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan (1959) - Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. That's the secret of artistic unity.... If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that? permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard (1987) - Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) - Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country (2005)
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