# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

> You couldn't help that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Jailbird](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/jailbird.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Jailbird_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/jailbird/you-couldnt-help

## More from this book

> Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor's sufferings and derring-do.

p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/jailbird/labor-history-was.md)

> What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/jailbird/what-is-flirtatiousness.md)

> "That was the strength of the Nazis," she said. "They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/jailbird/that-was-the.md)