# Deadeye Dick

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick

## Quotes

> I hadn't aimed at anything. If I had thought of the bullet's hitting anything, I don't remember now. I was the great marksman, anyway. If I aimed at nothing, then nothing is what I would hit. The bullet was a symbol, and nobody was ever hurt by a symbol. It was a farewell to my childhood and a confirmation of my manhood. Why didn't I use a blank cartridge? What kind of a symbol would that have been?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/i-hadnt-aimed.md)

> My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/my-wife-has.md)

> Many people found our house spooky, and the attic in fact as full of evil when I was born. It housed a collection of more than three hundred antique and modern firearms. Father had bought them during his and Mother's six-month honeymoon in Europe in 1922. Father thought them beautiful, but they might as well have been copperheads and rattlesnakes. They were murder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/many-people-found.md)

> You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/you-want-to-know.md)

> This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/this-is-my-principal.md)

> To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
>
> I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/deadeye-dick/to-the-as-yet-unborn.md)