Kurt Vonnegut's best quotes
The top 3 according to 177 votes from people: So it goes. · If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. · God damn it, you've got to be kind.. (Updated Dec 24, 2020.)
'So it goes', 'God damn it, you've got to be kind' and 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is': Kurt Vonnegut's most loved lines, from Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night and his essays, plus the famous sunscreen speech he never gave.
Top 12
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So it goes.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), repeated after every death in the novel.
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If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
His uncle Alex's saying, which he urged readers to repeat when happy: 'Knowing What's Nice', 2003.
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God damn it, you've got to be kind.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965).
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Mother Night (1962), introduction added in 1966.
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5
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
Mother Night (1962).
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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
Breakfast of Champions (1973).
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Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972), preface.
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I simply never unlearned junior civics.
On why he kept believing in American ideals.
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Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Player Piano (1952).
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10
Nothing in this book is true.
Cat's Cradle (1963), epigraph.
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Wear sunscreen.
Misattributed: the 'commencement speech' credited to him in 1997 was really a newspaper column by Mary Schmich.
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12
Find a subject you care about.
'How to Write with Style', 1980.
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