Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, 1922 - 2007
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- There's love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1963) - This is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night (1962) - This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Deadeye Dick (1982) - This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick (1976) - This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) - Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard (1987) - True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Interview with David Hoppe, Utne Reader (May/June 2003) - Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004) - We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country (2005) - We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions (1973) - We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country (2005)
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