Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

• The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

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

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• To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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• 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.

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• Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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• 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.

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

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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

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

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

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• The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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

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• 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.

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Kurt Vonnegut (66)

Birth:	11th November, 1922
Death:	11th April, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Writer

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