Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Breakfast Of Champions
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The arts are not a way to make a living.
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
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Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.
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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
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There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
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Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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.
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The big show is inside my head.
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The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.
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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.
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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
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I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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