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“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I'm doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit... when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano

“Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.”
― Mark Vonnegut

“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“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.

And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.

For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says."

No, it's not...”
― Monty Python

“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”
― Graham Chapman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
― Graham Chapman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

“Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.”
― Graham Chapman

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon