So now we can build an unselfish society by devoting to unselfishness the frenzy we once devoted to gold and to underpants.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again."
"Jenny
Mots clés love human-nature
Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
How embarrassing it is to be human.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Dammit, you've got to be kind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and hated everybody at the high school. She would like to claw away her face, she told us, so that people would stop seeing things in it that had nothing to do with what she was like inside. She was ready to die at any time, she said, because what men and boys thought about her and tried to do to her made her so ashamed. One of the first things she was going to do when she got to heaven, she said, was to ask somebody what was written on her face and why had it been put there.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés beauty shame depression face goddess self-concept
The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is. One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I'm in.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last—the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés perfection
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés creation cat vonnegut cat-s-cradle
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