What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: humor zeal vonnegut cat-s-cradle
Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: vonnegut cat-s-cradle
A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he can never keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: cat-s-cradle
And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?"
"I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!
Tag: cat-s-cradle
As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [...] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: cat-s-cradle
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: creation cat vonnegut cat-s-cradle
It's nice to be nice.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: speculative-fiction cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: maturity cat-s-cradle kurt-vonnegut
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