She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: humanity ignorance criticism thoughts
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: truth knowledge vonnegut kurt
You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just “evil” now. It’s completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can’t help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it crashed, big time, and capitalism looked like a very poor idea.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley.
Newt's painting was small, black, and warty.
It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.
Oh happy Meat. Oh happy Soul. Oh happy Rabo Karabekian.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: humor zeal vonnegut cat-s-cradle
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