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Quotes from A Man Without a Country — Kurt Vonnegut

1922–2007 United States

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25 quotes

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

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What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?

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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.

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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

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Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

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If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.

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George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

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Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

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A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

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Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?

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During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kurt Vonnegut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.