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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Quotes

«Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.»
«I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.»
«Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?»
«People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.»
«Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.»
«High School is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.»
«Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.»
«If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Writer) | About: Nature
«We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.»
«Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!»

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