Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut

I was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and locked in a slaughterhouse when Dresden burned around me. Came out the other side pretty sure the only virtue worth having is kindness. Everything else is noise.

Kurt Vonnegut
·2005·New York, United States

True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, 'Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history?' And Joe said, 'I've got something he can never have.' And I said, 'What on earth could that be, Joe?' And Joe said, 'The knowledge that I've got enough.' Not bad!