Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut The complicated futility of ignorance. Kurt Vonnegut futility ignorance complicated When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed Kurt Vonnegut comfort men thinking The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. Kurt Vonnegut soul life art American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts. Kurt Vonnegut horse gun nuts If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. Kurt Vonnegut tangled would-be people I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. Kurt Vonnegut kind dream littles Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim. Kurt Vonnegut stars baby two I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it? Kurt Vonnegut vocabulary art thinking Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut anxiety positive-thinking good-night I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex. Kurt Vonnegut men sex america It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say. Kurt Vonnegut pain race writing My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. Kurt Vonnegut freethinker ancestor secular It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane. Kurt Vonnegut cried ocean There are plenty of good reasons for fighting. Kurt Vonnegut mother-night fighting reason Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. Kurt Vonnegut hello farewell All this happened, more or less. Kurt Vonnegut slaughterhouse-5 slaughterhouse-five chaos I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents. Kurt Vonnegut parent names thinking Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. Kurt Vonnegut sixteen rose school There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore. Kurt Vonnegut economic vote justice The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. Kurt Vonnegut pretending artist meaningful
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