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Kurt Vonnegut
American
Author
Born:
Nov 11
,
1922
Died:
Apr 11
,
2007
About
Me
People
Science
Think
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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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