Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

99 Quotes

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

Menceritakan lelucon adalah seni tersendiri, dan selalu muncul dari beberapa ancaman emosional. Lelucon terbaik berbahaya, dan berbahaya karena mereka dengan cara tertentu jujur.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Anda belajar tentang kehidupan dengan kegagalan yang Anda alami, lagi dan lagi.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

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