More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
Take life seriously but none of the people in it.
