Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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Kurt Vonnegut

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 11, 1922

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science is magic that works.

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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

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What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

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