Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Kurt Vonnegut
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As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
Kurt Vonnegut
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
Kurt Vonnegut
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
Kurt Vonnegut
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt Vonnegut