Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, 1922 - 2007
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- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Americans ... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1963) - And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - "The Noodle Factory" speech at the dedication of the Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London - Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Anyway — because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next — and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis — at any time of night or day. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions (1973) - As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) - Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick (1976) - Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't — no matter when, no matter what. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano (1952) - Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. permalink
Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus (1990) - Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on Earth they think they're doing. permalink
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