What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science, and books, books, books, and teachers and role models.
People so smart you can’t believe it, and people so dumb you can’t believe it. People so nice you can’t believe it, and people so mean you can’t believe it.
Un paranoico è una persona che è impazzita nel modo più intelligente e ben informato, il mondo essendo quel che è
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.So it goes."
Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so much as for how much emotion—and dismissal of emotion—it packs into three simple, world-weary words that simultaneously accept and dismiss everything. There's a reason this quote graced practically every elegy written for Vonnegut over the past two weeks (yes, including ours): It neatly encompasses a whole way of life. More crudely put: "Shit happens, and it's awful, but it's also okay. We deal with it because we have to.
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don’t want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that’s the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: humorous
It is never a mistake to say good-bye.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: family survival support extended-family
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.
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