As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: metaphor symbolism adolf-von-kleist mandarax



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I'll tell you what the human soul is, Mary,' he whispered, his eyes closed. 'Animals don't have one. It's the part of you that knows when your brain isn't working right. I always knew, Mary. There wasn't anything I could do about it, but I always knew.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: success failure life-lessons



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It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,” I said, “that makes it damn nearly impossible for me to say anything. I’ve lost the knack of making sense. I speak gibberish to the civilized world, and it replies in kind.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: life writing war memories nonsense



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They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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We're—we're going to Paradise now?" said Constant. "I—I'm going to get into Paradise?"

"Don't ask me why, old sport," said Stony, "but somebody up there likes you.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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He was a portly man, aslop in coffee and gravid with Danish pastry.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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To be is to do’ — Socrates.
‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre.
‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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Hayat hakkında bilinebilecek her şey Karamazof Kardeşler'de var.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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