Best quotes by Kurt Vonnegut on People

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  • If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
    - Kurt Vonnegut
  • I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.
    - Kurt Vonnegut