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Kurt Vonnegut

I'm an old guy, and I was pro...

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I think I succeeded as a write...

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Kla...

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever ...

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

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Kurt Vonnegut

In those days great teachers a...

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

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Kurt Vonnegut

My ancestors were Freethinkers...

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

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Kurt Vonnegut

[Ayres] was our city because w...

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know what anybody els...

I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

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Kurt Vonnegut

The trouble with God isn't th...

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect deion of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

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Kurt Vonnegut

People aren't supposed to look...

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

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Kurt Vonnegut

It pains me even now, even a m...

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That's all I can say.

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Kurt Vonnegut

And what gift of America to th...

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Never schedule a board meeting...

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

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Kurt Vonnegut

My special situation was that ...

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

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Kurt Vonnegut

But I have to say this in defe...

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

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Kurt Vonnegut

There is a riddle about a man ...

There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.

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Kurt Vonnegut

As Marilee and I were dressing...

As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.

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Kurt Vonnegut

You are pooped and demoralised...

You are pooped and demoralised,' read Dwayne. 'Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I've written about Powers Hap...

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I have wanted to give Iraq a l...

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

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