Quotes of Kurt Vonnegut - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ So it goes. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ No art is possible without a dance with death. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of god was music’. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Say what you will about the sweet miracle of un questioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Pretend to be good all the time, and even God will be fooled. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut
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