I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: knowledge
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: knowledge
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: high-school terror
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: words reading books literature
Roses are red,
And ready for plucking,
You're sixteen,
And ready for high school.
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