All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

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 Quote

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
- Kurt Vonnegut Quote