Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: charm first-impressions
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: doubt terrifying vile
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.
Tags: life philosophy nature
No art is possible without a dance with death.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: slaughter-house-five
It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say after a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead...everything is supposed to be very quiet...and it always is, except for the birds.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing college semicolons
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
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