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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.


Kurt Vonnegut

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KURT VONNEGUT The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis...
KURT VONNEGUT There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth...
KURT VONNEGUT All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUT Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall...
KURT VONNEGUT Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
KURT VONNEGUT The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
KURT VONNEGUT Life is no way to treat an animal.
KURT VONNEGUT A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
KURT VONNEGUT To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUT In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
KURT VONNEGUT I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
KURT VONNEGUT Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
KURT VONNEGUT Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
KURT VONNEGUT Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths
KURT VONNEGUT profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
KURT VONNEGUT Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
KURT VONNEGUT One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
KURT VONNEGUT The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
KURT VONNEGUT This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
KURT VONNEGUT My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
KURT VONNEGUT People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
KURT VONNEGUT Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT This is a beguiling book,
KURT VONNEGUT and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
KURT VONNEGUT Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
KURT VONNEGUT The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
KURT VONNEGUT The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
KURT VONNEGUT What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
KURT VONNEGUT Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
KURT VONNEGUT I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
KURT VONNEGUT The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
KURT VONNEGUT Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
KURT VONNEGUT It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
KURT VONNEGUT I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
KURT VONNEGUT Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
KURT VONNEGUT The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
KURT VONNEGUT Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
KURT VONNEGUT How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
KURT VONNEGUT There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
KURT VONNEGUT Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
KURT VONNEGUT You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.
KURT VONNEGUT