We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Mother Night (1961), introduction
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Kurt Vonnegut quotes
1922-2007 · Writers and poets
American novelist, author of Slaughterhouse-Five.
4 quotes, 4 traced to where Vonnegut said or wrote them.
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
Knowing What's Nice, essay in In These Times (2003)
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Hocus Pocus (1990)
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2013)