Cigars, of course, are made of trail mix, of crushed cashews and Granola and raisins, soaked in maple syrup and dried in the sun. Why not eat one tonight at bedtime?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Visumam ir divi galvenie virzītājspēki: Laiks un Gadījums.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.How could I ever trust a man who's been as good a spy as you have?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.And so it goes
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking machine, and your father was programmed to bawl out your mother for being a defective housekeeping machine. They were programmed to bawl each other out for being defective loving machines. Then your father was programmed to stomp out of the house and slam the door. This automatically turned your mother into a weeping machine. And your father would go down to the tavern where he would get drunk with some other drinking machines. Then all the drinking machines would go to a whorehouse and rent fucking machines. And then your father would drag himself home to become an apologizing machine. And your mother would become a very slow forgiving machine.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Another guy came in, and he said he was quitting his job at the Research Laboratory; said anything a scientist worked on was sure to wind up as a weapon, one way or another. Said he didn’t want to help politicians with their fugging wars anymore. Name was Breed. I asked him if he was any relation to the boss of the fugging Research Laboratory. He said he fugging well was. Said he was the boss of the Research Laboratory’s fugging son.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.
(“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)
Tag: style writing ireland writer writers-quotes
Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was a good scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves-- and yet it described no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: kurt-vonnegut slapstick
If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly there can be no foundation below which a human being cannot sink. What capitalists must realize is that you are fighting to make capitalism survive, not destroy it; you are fighting to eliminate the seeds of destruction inherent in the status quo."
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's letter to Don Matchan, 27 April 1947
Tag: letters favorites political-observation
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