Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Qualities
  • Charismatic
  • Revered

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Same
  • Media
  • Gentleman

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Up
  • Real
  • Character

• On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968).

  

  Denis Healey

• 'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • People
  • Women

• I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

  

  John Bercow
  • People
  • Political

• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Humanity
  • Brilliant
  • Midnight

• I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • America