Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?
Kurt Vonnegut
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Kurt Vonnegut
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It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut
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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
Kurt Vonnegut
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt Vonnegut