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Famous Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
“Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.”
“The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.”
“[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.”
“We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.”
“My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.”
“People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.”
“[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.”
“My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.”
“It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.”
“As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.”
“You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations