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Quotes from Jailbird — Kurt Vonnegut

1922–2007 United States

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5 quotes

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Jailbird (1979)

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Jailbird (1979)

You couldn't help that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

Jailbird (1979)

Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor's sufferings and derring-do.

Jailbird (1979)

"Why? The Sermon on the Mount, sir."

Jailbird (1979)

Attribution

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