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Kurt Vonnegut

  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    “Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    Science is magic that works.
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it’s unscientific.
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    And I realized with chagrin that my agreeing to be boss had freed Frank to do what he wanted to do more than anything else, to do what his father had done: to receive honors and creature comforts while escaping human responsibilities. He was accomplishing this by going down a spiritual oubliette.
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    “Write it all down,” Bokonon tells us. He is really telling us, of course, how futile it is to write or read histories. “Without accurate records of the past, how can men and women be expected to avoid making serious mistakes in the future?” he asks ironically.
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    Well, as Bokonon tells us: “God never wrote a good play in His Life.”
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    “Sometimes the pool-pah,” Bokonon tells us, “exceeds the power of humans to comment.” Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as “shit storm” and at another point as “wrath of God.”
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?”
    It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
    This is it:
    “Nothing.”
  • Annettehas quoted2 years ago
    Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
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