Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 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, Jr. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 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, Jr. High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 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, Jr. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
