Quote #150

'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said. 'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'

More from Kurt Vonnegut

  1. She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
  2. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
  3. Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
  4. How embarrassing to be human.
  5. They're playin our song Gene!
  6. I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college. 'Yale,' he said. I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called 'Plan…
  7. The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders fro…
  8. [Freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

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