Kurt Vonnegut Dresden Quotes

#1. The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Saul Steinberg

#2. I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Cameron Dokey

#3. Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945," Billy Pilgrim began. "We came out of our shelter the next day." He told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone,

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#5. We accepted their congratulations with good grace and proper modesty, but I felt then as I feel now, that I would have given my life to save Dresden for the world's generations to come. That is how everyone should feel about every city on earth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. since the EU was created, there have been more wars in Europe than between 1945 and 1992. Many

George Friedman

#7. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. This family knew that Dresden was gone. Those with eyes had seen it burn and burn, understood that they were on the edge of a desert now. Still-they had opened for business, had polished the glass and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. A perfectly routine piece of news: "Last night our planes attacked Dresden. All planes returned safely." The only good German is a dead one: over one hundred thousand evil men, women, and children (the able-bodied were at the fronts) forever purged of their sins against humanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

Che Guevara

#11. For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.

Brian Viglione

#12. I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. The one who preferred her own sorrows to all the joys in the world had enterd the forest and broken the spell

Sara Novic

#14. He smiled to himself. "Because she made you." And he wrapped his skinny arm around my neck and yanked me into his side. "You're the best friend I've ever had, and I wanted to tell her 'thank you.

Penelope Douglas

#15. Americans have finally heard about Dresden," said Rumfoord, twenty-three years after the raid.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#16. Billy switched on a floor lamp. The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana's body into sharp relief. Billy was reminded of fantastic architecture in Dresden, before it was bombed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. 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

#18. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed that here was where the digging for bodies was to begin. So the digging began.

Kurt Vonnegut