Kurt Vonnegut – Quotes Crazy

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. – Kurt Vonnegut

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure dont need an enemy. – Kurt Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so theyll have good voice boxes in case theres ever anything really meaningful to say. – Kurt Vonnegut

Still and all, why bother? Heres my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. – Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut

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? – Kurt Vonnegut

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. – Kurt Vonnegut

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. – Kurt Vonnegut

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

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. – Kurt Vonnegut

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut