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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

American Author Class

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.

Government Superstition

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

American Author

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There is the implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There is the implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

American Author

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

American Author

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

American Author Cancer

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

American Author

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

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

I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

American Author

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

American Author Evolution

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

American Author

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

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 Quotes

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.

American Author

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

American Author Astrology

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

American Author

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

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 Quotes

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.''

This is a beguiling book, - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

This is a beguiling book,

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently...in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time...We had fought something which was totally obscene.This was very bad for us... One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity...has become our curse today. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently...in order that we can be frenzied on the battlefield. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that our German enemies really were satanic this time...We had fought something which was totally obscene.This was very bad for us... One idea put into our heads was that our enemies were so awful, so evil, that we, by contrast, must be remarkably pure. That illusion of purity...has become our curse today.

Evil

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

American Author

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

American Author

We are what we imagine ourselves to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

So it goes. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

American Author

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

American Author Earth

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

American Author Universe

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

American Author Man

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

American Author Earth

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

American Author

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

American Author Freedom

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

Life

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