Kurt Vonnegut

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#goodbye

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cat-s #cradle #kurt #vonnegut #life

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#inspirational #writing #humor

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#love

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#real-life #humor

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#power #profanity #information

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #life

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#writing #love

You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#inspirational

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#writing #music