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

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Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a..."
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. Kurt Vonnegut
The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in. Kurt Vonnegut
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! Kurt Vonnegut
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. Kurt Vonnegut
kar. a. bek. i. an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U. S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Kurt Vonnegut
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut
This woman was so ugly and stupid, she probably never should have been born. And yet Wait was the second person to have married her. Kurt Vonnegut
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. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make..."
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Kurt Vonnegut
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person. Kurt Vonnegut
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. Kurt Vonnegut
The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal. Kurt Vonnegut
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. Kurt Vonnegut
Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. Kurt Vonnegut

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