What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.
Philip José FarmerTags: science-fiction parable fairy-tale genre ray-bradbury kurt-vonnegut
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: life people human ugly body beautiful kurt-vonnegut breakfast-of-champions chemicals
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: truth world earth destruction planet kurt-vonnegut breakfast-of-champions lousy manufactured
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: thinking girls women manipulation machines kurt-vonnegut breakfast-of-champions
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: truth beauty symbolism beautiful symbols symbol kurt-vonnegut sometimes breakfast-of-champions
If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut didn’t like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn’t see the world the way I see it. I suppose I’m too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both. But I don’t think I’m too over optimistic.
Ray BradburyTags: cassandra kurt-vonnegut norman-mailer janus pollyanna
Poput tolikih patoloških ličnosti koje su prije milijun godina bile od moći, mogao je učiniti gotovo sve prepuštajući se trenutačnom porivu i ne osjećajući gotovo ništa. Logička objašnjenja za njegova djela, izmišljena u dokolici, uvijek su dolazila kasnije.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: kurt-vonnegut
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: war slaughterhouse-five kurt-vonnegut
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: timequake kurt-vonnegut
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