“In a democracy, after 100 years you have to let your slaves go. And after 150 years, you have to let your women vote.”
~ “Daily Show” appearance with Jon Stewart, 2005
“Life is ominous. It can be horrifying. Most of all, however, it is ridiculous."
~ Slaughterhouse-Five
If crying and laughing, as he once suggested, were equally valid reactions to the miseries of life, he preferred laughing, which required “less cleaning” afterward.
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“The children of a suicide will naturally think of death, the big one, as a logical solution to any problem.”
“When you’re dead, you’re dead.”
~ Mother Night, 1961
"Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."
~ Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
~ Mother Night
"I am eternally grateful ... for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
~ Timequake, 1997
"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'."
~ Timequake, 1997
~ quotes from Kurt Vonnegut, novelist
"Vonnegut tackled the most unanswerable conundrums of human life: Is there a god? What is progress? And, most significantly, why on Earth are we so unfailingly awful to each other?"
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