We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: imagination life choice inspiration action attitude pretend
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All this happened, more or less.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: first-sentence
Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: not-alone
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Well finish your story anyway."
Where was I?"
The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses."
Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could do to find a live patient to treat. In bed after bed after bed we found dead people.
And Father started giggling," Castle continued.
He couldn't stop. He walked out into the night with his flashlight. He was still giggling. He was making the flashlight beam dance over all the dead people stacked outside. He put his hand on my head and do you know what that marvelous man said to me?" asked Castle.
Nope."
'Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
Tag: humor
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: timequake
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