Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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Love & Relationships 0.9
"Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."
- Kurt Vonnegut
General 0.9
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Faith & Spirituality 0.4
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Music & Art 0.4
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Life & Living 0.4
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Life & Living 0.3
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Poetry & Arts 0.3
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Soul & Spirit 0.3
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Kindness & Compassion 0.3
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Art & Creativity 0.3
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Age & Aging 0.3
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Nature & Environment 0.3
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Kurt Vonnegut
General 0.2
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Government & Law 0.2
"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.2
"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.2
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.1
"To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.1
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Truth & Honesty 0.1
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.1
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Life & Living 0.1
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Government & Law 0.1
"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.1
"The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Writing & Literature 0.1
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Freedom & Liberty 0.1
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Humor & Wit 0.1
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Writing & Literature 0.1
"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophy & Thinking 0.1
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Life & Living 0.1
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Wisdom & Knowledge 0.1
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
- Kurt Vonnegut