Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

    I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Technology
    I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Creativity
    High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Education
    I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Politics
    I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Science
    1. Find a subject you care about.7. Pity the readers.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Creativity
    Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Literature
    The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Humorous
    One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    War

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