Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. Kurt Vonnegut important time running I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't. Kurt Vonnegut suing three smoking We are what we imagine ourselves to be. Kurt Vonnegut imagination goal inspirational You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same. Kurt Vonnegut forget-it forget-everything forget Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, Kurt Vonnegut crazy want world 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 smile laughter funny What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order." Kurt Vonnegut music order sex We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut faith beautiful life Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema. Kurt Vonnegut coughing response choke All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Kurt Vonnegut voice men war Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. Kurt Vonnegut writing character two There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly. Kurt Vonnegut hate fighting war Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. Kurt Vonnegut humans humanity thinking No art is possible without a dance with death. Kurt Vonnegut art-is art Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die. Kurt Vonnegut drinking beer weight-loss That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut alive mistake thinking Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Kurt Vonnegut common work writing 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 communication meaningful order Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. Kurt Vonnegut maturity knowing way There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Kurt Vonnegut imagine hate fighting
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