Top 86 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

About Kurt Vonnegut

These are some quotes by American author Kurt Vonnegut Author, who lived between November 11, 1922 and April 11, 2007.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Kurt Vonnegut

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Kurt Vonnegut

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

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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