Quotes from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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 Jr.
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.