You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUT
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
-
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUT -
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
KURT VONNEGUT -
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.
KURT VONNEGUT -
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
KURT VONNEGUT -
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUT -
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
KURT VONNEGUT -
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT -
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUT -
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT -
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
KURT VONNEGUT -
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.
KURT VONNEGUT -
Science is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUT -
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT