Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

topic:writing

“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

topic:writing books

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

topic:writing

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

topic:loneliness feelings

“I could carve a better man out of a banana.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:man

“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:war

“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what the Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:war

“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:war character

“Science is magic that works.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

topic:science

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:money killing

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