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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.


Kurt Vonnegut

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KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have ...
KURT VONNEGUT She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to ...
KURT VONNEGUT What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny.
KURT VONNEGUT The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them...
KURT VONNEGUT I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
KURT VONNEGUT Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the char...
KURT VONNEGUT 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began l...
KURT VONNEGUT I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresente...
KURT VONNEGUT Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
KURT VONNEGUT Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either...
KURT VONNEGUT One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have ...
KURT VONNEGUT Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
KURT VONNEGUT Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person...
KURT VONNEGUT Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best th...
KURT VONNEGUT Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is be...
KURT VONNEGUT Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democr...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
KURT VONNEGUT I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I'...
KURT VONNEGUT The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
KURT VONNEGUT We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUT It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be...
KURT VONNEGUT I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. ...
KURT VONNEGUT But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Gard...
KURT VONNEGUT Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. ...
KURT VONNEGUT I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantalo...
KURT VONNEGUT The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
KURT VONNEGUT In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
KURT VONNEGUT The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
KURT VONNEGUT Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
KURT VONNEGUT I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting hon...
KURT VONNEGUT And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUT I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
KURT VONNEGUT every grotesquely rich American represents property, privileges, and pleasures that have been denied...
KURT VONNEGUT The Money River, where the wealth of the nation flows. We were born on the banks of it-and so were m...
KURT VONNEGUT May I ask you a highly personal question?"

"It's what life does all the time.
KURT VONNEGUT Be fruitful, and multiply.
KURT VONNEGUT Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love ev...
KURT VONNEGUT If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
KURT VONNEGUT Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill...
KURT VONNEGUT Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I...
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