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Kurt Vonnegut quotes about life

American Author, Writer November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007

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It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. [...] And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. There is an implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. That is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?"
Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that? Kurt Vonnegut
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. Kurt Vonnegut
A bald man made an attempt on Constant's life with a hot dog. Stabbed at the window glass with it. Splayed the bun. Broke the frankfurter. Left a sickly sunburst of mustard and relish. Kurt Vonnegut
I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too. Kurt Vonnegut
I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The function of art is to make people like life more than they..."
The function of art is to make people like life more than they do. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human..."
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From..."
Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way. Kurt Vonnegut
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer. Kurt Vonnegut
Unk had no way of judging the quality of the information contained in the letter. He accepted it all hungrily, uncritically. And, in accepting it, Unk gained an understanding of life that was identical with the writer's understanding of life. Unk wolfed down a philosophy. Kurt Vonnegut
Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too..."
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "That is my principle objection to life, I think. It is too..."
That is my principle objection to life, I think. It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. Kurt Vonnegut

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