Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.
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I'm a horrible romantic!
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
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Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
