True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTI can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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