I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: kurt-vonnegut
When you're dead you're dead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: mother-night kurt-vonnegut
Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: mother-night kurt-vonnegut
going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John GreenTags: reading night moonlight kurt-vonnegut dewy-field
Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: kurt-vonnegut breakfast-of-champions
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: reading writing kurt-vonnegut
What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they have of thinking that everything nice in the world is a gift to the poor people from them or their ancestors. The first afternoon I was here, Mrs. Buntline made me come out on the back porch and look at the sunset. So I did, and I said I liked it very much, but she kept waiting for me to say something else. I couldn't think of what I was supposed to say, so I said what seemed like a dumb thing. "Thank you very much," I said. That is exactly what she was waiting for. "You're entirely welcome," she said. I have since thanked her for the ocean, the moon, the stars in the sky, and the United States Constitution.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: wealth satire kurt-vonnegut rich-people
It's nice to be nice.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: speculative-fiction cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was a good scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves-- and yet it described no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: kurt-vonnegut slapstick
Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: kurt-vonnegut slapstick
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