...all subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been put on Earth to study, which is life itself.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: daswhatimsayin
I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: existential photos
I'm afraid I don't read as much as I ought to," said Maggie.
"We're all afraid of something," Trout replied. "I'm afraid of cancer and rats and Doberman pinschers.
I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency." I treated somebody well for a little while, or maybe even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in turn. Love need not have had anything to do with it.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: love relationships bad-experience
Maturity,” Bokonon
tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless
laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Stichwörter: laughter maturity bokononism
And God created every living creature
that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak.
God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke.
Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He
went away.
Stichwörter: life creation purpose-of-life bokononism
[Andrei Sakharov] won his Nobel in 1975 for demanding a halt to the testing of nuclear weapons. He, of course, had already tested his. His wife was a pediatrician! What sort of person could perfect a hydrogen bomb while married to a child-care specialist? What sort of physician would stay married to a mate that cracked?
"Anything interesting happen at work today, honeybunch?"
"Yes. My bomb is going to work just great. And how are you doing with that kid with chicken pox?
That man's got a lot of get up and go," said Anita.
"He fills me full of lie down and die," said Paul.
And the charming little cottage he'd taken as a symbol of the good life of a farmer was as irrelevant as a statue of Venus at the gate of a sewage-disposal plant.
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