“I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”
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Famous Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
“The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.”
“I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel
“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
Source: The Sirens of Titan
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).”
“The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
Source: Timequake
“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.”
Source: Timequake
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.”
Source: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.”
“Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.”