Truth Quote by Kurt Vonnegut — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”

“I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.”

“Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?”

“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.”

“But if a villain can be made, then they can be unmade.”

“But I still feel like I lost.”

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”

“That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.”

“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude”