# Bluebeard

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard

## Quotes

> I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/ive-got-news.md)

> Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/time-is-liquid.md)

> "We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true," I said. "That's how to act at a party."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/were-having-a-celebration.md)

> "I can't help it," I said. "My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
>
> "You and your what?" he said.
>
> "My soul and my meat," I said.
>
> "They're separate?" he said.
>
> "I sure hope they are," I said. I laughed. "I would hate to be responsible for what my meat does."

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/i-cant-help.md)

> Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

p. 168 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/who-is-more.md)

> '''Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.

p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/belief-is-nearly.md)

> What is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called "thought".

p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/what-is-literature.md)

> It is a gruesome Disneyland. Nobody is cute there.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/bluebeard/it-is-a-gruesome.md)