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" Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. "

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" If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Because

You

Writer

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "

" One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Did

Jonah

" Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. "

" If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. "

" I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Left

" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "

" I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it. "

" 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. "

" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "

" I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Think

People

" Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "

" 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. "

" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "

" I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. "

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. "

" All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. "

" I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "

" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Country

Public

" Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951. "

" During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. "

" Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. "

" My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. "

Kurt Vonnegut

Cash

Business

" 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. "

" I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. "