More from Kurt Vonnegut

  1. The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders fro…
  2. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
  3. If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
  4. She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
  5. The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the…
  6. 'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said. 'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
  7. I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impos…
  8. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

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