Tuesday, May 01, 2007
the REAL love of my life...
Current mood: disappointed
Is it possible to miss someone you've never met? seriously, although i never had a personal relationship with Kurt, i honestly feel the loss of him. is that creepy? He was part of a quickly vanishing breed of brilliant, down-to-earth, and still wildly hilarious human beings. God i loved him. This is his tribute.
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
-God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-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.
-Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
-Kurt Vonnegut
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
-Kurt Vonnegut
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
-Cat's Cradle
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
-"Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
-"Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
-"Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
-A Man without a Country
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
-A Man without a Country
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
-A Man without a Country
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
-Breakfast of Champions
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
-Breakfast of Champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
-Breakfast of Champions
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
-breakfast of champions
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-Cat's Cradle
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
-Cold Turkey
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
-Hocus Pocus
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-Mother Night
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Sirens of Titan
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
-Slaughterhouse Five
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.
-Slaughterhouse Five
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
-Slaughterhouse-Five
Currently reading:
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Release date: 03 August, 2006
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