Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, 1922 - 2007
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- I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) - I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bennington College commencement address (1970) - I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - "Knowing What's Nice" essay, In These Times (2003) - I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano (1952) - I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan (1959) - I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake (1997) - 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.' permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick (1976) - I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Interview with David Hoppe, Utne Reader (May/June 2003) - 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. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard (1987) - I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Playboy interview (July 1973) - Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions (1973) - If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990)
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