Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut - Cold Turkey
Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut - slaughterhouse 5
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut - Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut
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 - "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don?t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake, 1997
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut - "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut - "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut - Jr.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughter-House 5
You know what I say to people when I hear they?re writing an anti-war book?? I say, "why don?t you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
Kurt Vonnegut
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

- Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night