I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
Kurt Vonnegut
- Life
- 1922-2007
- Occupations
- playwright, writer, screenwriter
- Notable works
- Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions
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Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nutcases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nutcases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president. A Man Without A Country
Kurt Vonnegut
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. A Man Without A Country
Kurt Vonnegut
We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard … and too damn cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap. Vonnegut once suggested carving this quote into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.
Kurt Vonnegut
When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon.
Kurt Vonnegut