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6 quotes from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

— John, the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 1

It was to be a Christian book. I was a Christian then. I am a Bokononist now.

— John, the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 1

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

— Bokonon, quoted by the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 4

Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

— John, the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 4

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

— Bokonon, quoted by the narrator · Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963), Chapter 2

Finders, keepers—the idea is mine.

— Kurt Vonnegut · Kurt Vonnegut, interviewed in The Paris Review, Issue 69 (Spring 1977)

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