Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blind #job #kingdom #man #one-eyed

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#frontier #love #love

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#put-downs #stupidity #brain

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#music #nonfiction #politics #music

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#i #ours #planet #poor #really

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #science #death

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #turkey #television

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to always tell the difference. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#serenity-prayer #change

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#love

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life