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 VONNEGUTHow nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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.
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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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