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Mother Night Quotes
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
There are plenty of good reason for fighting, ” I said, “but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. “It’s that part of an imbecile, ” I said, “that punishes and vilifies and makes war.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
As for children’s working off aggressions, I’m against it. They are going to need all the aggressions they can contain for ultimate release in the adult world. Name one great man in history who did not go boiling and bubbling through childhood with a lashed-down safety valve.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through, ” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve lost the knack of making sense. I speak gibberish to the civilized world, and it replies in kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself — will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows — some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history — But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, ‘This fact I can do without.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
There are plenty of good reasons for fights, ” I said, “but no good reason to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”It’s that part of an imbecile, ” I said, “that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
You hate America, don’t you?’ ‘That would be as silly as loving it, ‘ I said. ‘It’s impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn’t interest me. It’s no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can’t think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
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