Being an American means never having to say you're sorry. Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut 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 astrology hands people It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. Kurt Vonnegut slaughterhouse-five gone forever Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut slaughterhouse-five hipster time Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. Kurt Vonnegut sarcastic witty funny There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. Kurt Vonnegut character war people A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees. Kurt Vonnegut might character people To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra Kurt Vonnegut To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut soul practice art I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. Kurt Vonnegut fire men thinking Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go. Kurt Vonnegut fate dream jobs So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. Kurt Vonnegut zero cities new-york The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet. Kurt Vonnegut dont-care planets care 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. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy. Kurt Vonnegut astrology government reading We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. Kurt Vonnegut health compassion ideas Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. Kurt Vonnegut would-be life Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. Kurt Vonnegut scientist eight years 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 freedom perfect writing Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been. Kurt Vonnegut sad regret inspirational Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery. Kurt Vonnegut sacred alive writing Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. Kurt Vonnegut jazz opinion littles
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