Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions

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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped s — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. "Hate to do this, Bill," he said of the fungi h — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All thei — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of Dwayne — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creatur — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a co — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airp — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions