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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. Kurt Vonnegut
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination. Kurt Vonnegut
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. Kurt Vonnegut
Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been artists. You and I, if some future archaeologist finds our works miraculously preserved in some city dump, will be judged by the quality of our creations. Nothing else about us will matter. 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
The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean. Kurt Vonnegut
I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns..."
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The..."
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are..."
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity...."
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Science is magic that works."
Science is magic that works. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do. Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "You were sick, but now you are well, and there is work to be..."
You were sick, but now you are well, and there is work to be done. Kurt Vonnegut

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