My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our mind and souls, in a spiritual adventure.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés books
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés slaughterhouse-five
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of reproduction.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000.
I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
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