" The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions US novelist (1922 – )

" Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. "

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

Kurt Vonnegut US novelist (1922 – )

" Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. "

Kurt Vonnegut US novelist (1922 – )

" Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. "

Kurt Vonnegut US novelist (1922 – )

" Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. "

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5 US novelist (1922 – )

" Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! "

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

" I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can

" Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five US novelist (1922 – )

" Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net US novelist (1922 – )

" How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five US novelist (1922 – )

" I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. "

Kurt Vonnegut US novelist (1922 – )

" I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. "

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

" You know what I say to people when I hear they

" New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions US novelist (1922 – )

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

" A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan US novelist (1922 – )

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" Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus US novelist (1922 – )

" There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night US novelist (1922 – )

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