Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. 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 importanttimerunning 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 suingthreesmoking We are what we imagine ourselves to be. Kurt Vonnegut imaginationgoalinspirational 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-itforget-everythingforget Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, Kurt Vonnegut crazywantworld 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 smilelaughterfunny What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order." Kurt Vonnegut musicordersex We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut faithbeautifullife 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 coughingresponsechoke 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 voicemenwar Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. Kurt Vonnegut writingcharactertwo 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 hatefightingwar Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. Kurt Vonnegut humanshumanitythinking No art is possible without a dance with death. Kurt Vonnegut art-isart Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die. Kurt Vonnegut drinkingbeerweight-loss That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut alivemistakethinking Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Kurt Vonnegut commonworkwriting 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 communicationmeaningfulorder Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. Kurt Vonnegut maturityknowingway 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 imaginehatefighting
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