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(47,953 posts) Thu Apr 12, 2012, 09:40 AM Apr 2012

Kurt Vonnegut: Best quotes

By Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor
10:34AM BST 11 Apr 20

Kurt Vonnegut died five years ago in New York on 11 April 2007 aged 84. The author of Slaughterhouse-Five is the subject of a new biography by Charles Shields. Here are some of Kurt Vonnegut's most memorable sayings:

• "We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

• “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

• "Humanists try to behave decently and honourably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. And, since the creator of the universe is to them unknowable so far, they serve as best can the highest abstraction of which they have some understanding, which is their community."

• “Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

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Kurt Vonnegut: Best quotes (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2012 OP

Du rec. Nt xchrom Apr 2012 #1

I'll say this. I learned more humanity from Mr. Vonnegut than I ever learned in a church. wandy Apr 2012 #2

My fav: "The Dark Ages never ended. We are still in the middle of them." FSogol Apr 2012 #3

Top Kurt quote: Bluenorthwest Apr 2012 #4

I am so thankful that I discovered Vonnegut hifiguy Apr 2012 #5

Thanks. I miss Vonnegut. BlueToTheBone Apr 2012 #6

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

1. Du rec. Nt

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 09:47 AM

Apr 2012

wandy

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2. I'll say this. I learned more humanity from Mr. Vonnegut than I ever learned in a church.

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:03 AM

Apr 2012

FSogol

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3. My fav: "The Dark Ages never ended. We are still in the middle of them."

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:11 AM

Apr 2012

Also "One day, all of our history will be condensed to: After the death of Christ there was a period of reorganization that lasted approximately 2000 years."

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

4. Top Kurt quote:

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:15 AM

Apr 2012

“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

hifiguy

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5. I am so thankful that I discovered Vonnegut

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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:19 AM

Apr 2012

and Orwell in my mid-teens rather than Ayn Rand. I would have reasoned my way out of Rand's nihilism eventually anyway but Vonnegut and Orwell saved me the time and trouble.

"I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine." - Kurt Vonnegut

BlueToTheBone

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6. Thanks. I miss Vonnegut.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:20 AM

Apr 2012

My favorite book (hard to chose) would be Welcome to the Monkey House. I think it describes this time very well.

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