Interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS) (7 October 2005) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html
Various interviews
Context: [When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”
Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
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American singer and actor 1935–1977Related quotes
“I hate flowers — I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move!”
quote in Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Laurie Lisle, Viking Press, New York, 1981, p. 180
1980s
“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go
“The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.”
As quoted by Paul Johnson in Failure of the Feminists http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6766663/failure-of-the-feminists/, The Spectator, 12 March, 2011.
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“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”
Source: Barfly