Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. Wikipedia
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
Being an American means never having to say you’re sorry.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
There’s only one me, and I’m stuck with him.
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Writing
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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.
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes so it Goes
And so it goes…
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes Slaughter House Five
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet.
At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.
It is, in the imagination of combat’s fans, the divinely listless love play that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called ‘mopping up.
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Time
I don’t know what’s going on, and I’m probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we’re being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it’s over.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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