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... uncritical love is the on...

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

If I were a younger man, I wo...

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

To practice any art, no matte...

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Be a sadist. No matter how sw...

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

But some of the nonsense was ...

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

The biggest truth to face now...

The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Indianapolis, Indiana is the ...

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

The two real political partie...

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Because we grew up surrounded...

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Laughter or crying is what a ...

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Any form of government, not j...

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Roses are red, And ready for ...

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

The more pain I train myself ...

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

No one can amount to a damn i...

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

It's only recently that I've ...

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

It's perfectly ordinary to be...

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

Another flaw in the human cha...

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

That's what is was to be youn...

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

If you want to break the rule...

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

And Lot's wife, of course, wa...

And 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. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

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