The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything—and I advise you to do the same.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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Mark Vonnegut
You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
More Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact...
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please...
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.
