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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
American Author
Born: Nov 11, 1922
Died: Apr 11, 2007
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. Kurt Vonnegut
You Earth Tell Around Anybody Different Fart Here
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut
Morning Class Age School Wake Up Country One Morning High Running High School True Terror Discover Wake Up Your
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
Myself Cleaning Frustration Tears Laughter Laugh Responses Both Since Exhaustion Up Afterwards Prefer Less
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. Kurt Vonnegut
Life Art Soul Matter Living Way More Bearable Badly Well Make Practicing How Making Sake Very Heaven Human Arts Your Grow Human Way
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut
Environmental Saved Too Earth Could Cheap Were
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut
You Edge Out Kinds See Over Without Close Going Want Center Stand Things
I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me. Kurt Vonnegut
Me Dog Out Some He Like Know Talk Likes Him Lets
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. Kurt Vonnegut
Hope Good Matter Organization Evil Mafia Angels Triumph No Reason Along Lines Often Anything Cannot Organized Reason Such Things Why Things
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
Today Loneliness People Young Daring Most Obviously Terrible Cured Disease Stable Which Young People Create Should Communities Many Lives Thing Things
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. Kurt Vonnegut
Work Truth Knowledge Valuable Become Earth More New Most New Knowledge Commodity Richer
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut
You Man Job One-Eyed Kingdom Blind Anything
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut
Trapped Amber Moment Why Here
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut
Rage Loathing Attacked He He Or She Put Hot Like Armor She Reviewer Person Any Full Who Novel Expresses
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. Kurt Vonnegut
Alone You People Care Think Desperately About Bother Feel Most Message Although Answer Still Them Much Many Why Why Bother Things Receive Here Need
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. Kurt Vonnegut
Equality Year Everyone Finally Equal
Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. Kurt Vonnegut
Mistake Sweet Hell Way Evolution Wounded Only Concerned Am Go Go To Hell As Far As Century Far Planet Transportation Whole Milky Way
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. Kurt Vonnegut
Survival Think Evolution Crowning Scheme Glory Brain Very Human Taught Human Brain Poor Far
Science is magic that works. Kurt Vonnegut
Science Magic Works
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. Kurt Vonnegut
Freedom Me Natural Law Will Insist Country Our Guided Citizens Vanish About Seldom Divine Troubles Most Policemen Exercise Courts Prisons Up American Duties Taught Children Lovely Grow Grow Up
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
Good People Say About Case Something Voice Talk Boxes Just Order Anything Meaningful Really Working Keep Ever
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut
Disappointment Maturity Laughter Unless Bitter Could Remedy Said Exists Anything Which
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut
Best Good Birthday Communism People Everybody Astrology Possibilities Vivid About Almost Make Because Full Palm
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. Kurt Vonnegut
You Own Community Circulate Must Allow Merely Freely Ideas American Your
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut
Cancer Will Flush Ways Find Mars Primitive Erie Cure Get Human Human Beings Lake Happier Again Racial Inhabit Prejudice Communities Beings Utopia Eliminate
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut
Man Before Finds Something Wiser Beware Himself Learn Learns Than Hard Who Works
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. Kurt Vonnegut
Me Sometimes Look Make Learn Wonder Stop Anything
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