The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically." Another one said, "To teach wives of junior executives what to buy next and how to act in a French restaurant.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés 1970 bennington-college-address
Muszáj törődnöm vele. Valóságos fizikai fájdalmat okoz nekem, ha látom, hogy valamit rosszul csinálnak, amikor pedig olyan könnyen lehet jól is csinálni.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés inspirational quality
The fact remains that I am stuck with the risk of being me. I am compelled, therefor, to spread the risk around a little, if I can.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me ignorant and rootless as proof of their patriotism.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The mind is the only thing about human beings that’s worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag of skin, blood, hair, meat, bones and tubes? No wonder people can’t get anything done, stuck for life with a parasite that has to be stuffed with food and protected from weather and germs all the time. And the fool thing wears out anyway – no matter how much you stuff and protect it.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.So I guess maybe that’ll be the next step in evolution – to break clean like those first amphibians who crawled out of the mud into the sunshine, and who never did go back to the sea.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.What kind of a man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor?
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