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Kurt Vonnegut quotes

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

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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
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop to. It is like making wallpaper by hand for the Sistine Chapel. Kurt Vonnegut
He had a penis one inch in diameter and seven and a half inches long. During the past year, he had averaged twenty-two orgasms per month. This was far above the national average. His income and the value of his life insurance policies at maturity were also far above average. Kurt Vonnegut
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. Kurt Vonnegut

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