Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

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  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted5 years ago
    “Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”

    He wasn’t far from Bokonon in defining maturity. “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
  • Natalia Orlovahas quoted8 years ago
    She believed that God liked people in sailboats much better than He liked people in motorboats.
  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted5 years ago
    Tiger got to hunt,
    Bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?”
    Tiger got to sleep,
    Bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.
  • Anya Nikitinskayahas quoted8 years ago
    Ah, God, what an ugly city Ilium is!
    “Ah, God,” says Bokonon, “what an ugly city every city is!”
  • Tatiana Bunaevahas quoted12 years ago
    I don't do anything but sit around and remember sad things and pity myself.
  • Pavel Papinhas quoted4 days ago
    “The trouble with the world was,” she continued hesitatingly, “that people were still superstitious instead of scientific. He said if everybody would study science more, there wouldn’t be all the trouble there was.”
    “He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life someday,” the bartender put in. He scratched his head and frowned. “Didn’t I read in the paper the other day where they’d finally found out what it was?”
    “I missed that,” I murmured.
    “I saw that,” said Sandra. “About two days ago.”
    “That’s right,” said the bartender.
    “What is the secret of life?” I asked.
    “I forget,” said Sandra.
    “Protein,” the bartender declared. “They found out something about protein.”
    “Yeah,” said Sandra, “that’s it.”
  • Joseph Taylorhas quoted2 months ago
    The people down there are poor enough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have some common sense!”
  • Joseph Taylorhas quoted2 months ago
    Somebody or something did not wish me to be a nihilist. It was Krebbs’s mission, whether he knew it or not, to disenchant me with that philosophy. Well done, Mr. Krebbs, well done.
  • Joseph Taylorhas quoted2 months ago
    My second wife had left me on the grounds that I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with.
  • Joseph Taylorhas quoted2 months ago
    Life is sure funny sometimes.”

    “And sometimes it isn’t,” said Marvin Breed.
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