...those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.
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If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: inspirational
The Germans and the dog were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self explanatory name, a human enterprise which is seldom described in detail, whose name alone, when reported as new or history, gives many war enthusiasts a sort of post-coital satisfaction. It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called "mopping up.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: anti-war antiwar-movement
The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: war anti-war anti-war-movement
Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen--
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice--
So many different people
In the same device.
Stichwörter: poem vonnegut bokonon cats-cradle
God damnit, you've got to be kind
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Pretty, was she?"
"Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.
Stichwörter: love women beauty heaven obsession
I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: mistakes
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