Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Famous for Slaughterhouse-Five. Less famous for always writing by light of a red rooster lamp. Click on any Kurt Vonnegut quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale.

"All this happened, more or less."

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."

Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be."

Source: Mother Night | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

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