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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

If you really want tohurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enoughto become a...

If you really want to
hurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enough
to become a homosexual… [laughter] …the least you can do is go
into the arts

Full Transcript

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If you really want to hurt your parents,
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and you don’t have nerve enough to become a homosexual…
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[laughter]
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…the least you can do is go into the arts.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
43
Timestamp in Movie
01:38:25
Uploaded
May 07, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
9.14 Pictures,Whyaduck Productions

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Movie Summary

Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it.
[laughter, applause] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
[laughter, applause]
I didn’t want him to think that I had said, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
I didn’t want him to think that I had said,
But no matter how much time I’d put in, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:06
But no matter how much time I’d put in,
I should say I’m not the only one - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
I should say I’m not the only one
Well, this — this very morning, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
Well, this — this very morning,
And, uh… - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:11
And, uh…
[chuckling] - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:12
[chuckling]
Basically, the timequake is, at — - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:08
Basically, the timequake is, at —
Where the universe resets ten years, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:10
Where the universe resets ten years,
I remember him telling me back in the, uh, early ’90s - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
I remember him telling me back in the, uh, early ’90s
I’m, uh, writing stuff I don’t like. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
I’m, uh, writing stuff I don’t like.
I had a book scheduled to be published, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
I had a book scheduled to be published,
[David Ulin] He had finished - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:13
[David Ulin] He had finished
So he went in and, you know, he had a better idea - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:05
So he went in and, you know, he had a better idea
[Bob Weide] And when he finally sat down and wrote - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
[Bob Weide] And when he finally sat down and wrote
So you’d have a passage from the body of the story - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:11
So you’d have a passage from the body of the story
[Gregory Sumner] Vonnegut finished Timequake, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:07
[Gregory Sumner] Vonnegut finished Timequake,
They had an opening at the Borders flagship store. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
They had an opening at the Borders flagship store.
Very interesting to me how he continually kind of thought, - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:09
Very interesting to me how he continually kind of thought,
I actually have an idea for one more book. - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time 00:04
I actually have an idea for one more book.