Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think ab — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the w — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they wou — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. Thi — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stabl — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go o — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare che — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the fu — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage