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

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

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

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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 consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Kurt Vonnegut

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