Birisini öldürmeden önce arkasının sağlam olmadığından emin olun.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tanrım!
Değiştiremeyeceğim şeyleri kabul etmek için dinginlik,
değiştirebileceğim şeyleri değiştirmek için cesaret,
aradaki farkı anlamak için de bilgelik ihsan eyle bana.
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. 'When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Would a man nourished by beauty look like this? You have nothing but desolation and desperation here, you say? I bring you more of the same!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Did you or did you not say that the United States was a crock of doo-doo?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so that they would never hurt anybody ever again.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other kind of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world’s champions.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: giftedness
Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: parenting environmental-degradation
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