Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut.
Made it to 84. Sure he will be missed.
Made it to 84. Sure he will be missed.
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Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut
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edelephant
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
RIP Homie...
Kurt Vonnegut
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Kurt Vonnegut
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
RIP Homie...
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Guest
I loved the part in Back to School, when rich guy cum student Rodney Dangerfield is told "...Whoever wrote your paper doesn't know shit about Vonnegut".
Kurt did a cameo as himself, hired to write the paper the prof was critiquing.
Too Funny
ws
Kurt did a cameo as himself, hired to write the paper the prof was critiquing.
Too Funny
ws
G
Guest
RIP Kurt, your work will live on forever!!!
edelephant
Member
My favorite passage by him:
"'Satan,' he said, 'couldn't undo anything God had done. She could at least try to make existence for His little toys less painful. She could see what He couldn't: to be alive was to be either bored or scared stiff. So She filled an apple with all sorts of ideas that might at least relieve the boredom, such as rules for games with cards and dice, and how to fuck, and recipes for beer and wine and whiskey, and pictures of different plants that were smokeable, and so on. And instructions on how to make music and sing and dance real crazy, real sexy. And how to spout blasphemy when they stubbed their toes.'"
-Timequake
"'Satan,' he said, 'couldn't undo anything God had done. She could at least try to make existence for His little toys less painful. She could see what He couldn't: to be alive was to be either bored or scared stiff. So She filled an apple with all sorts of ideas that might at least relieve the boredom, such as rules for games with cards and dice, and how to fuck, and recipes for beer and wine and whiskey, and pictures of different plants that were smokeable, and so on. And instructions on how to make music and sing and dance real crazy, real sexy. And how to spout blasphemy when they stubbed their toes.'"
-Timequake
Mind-Left-Body
Member
you will be missed kurt! thanks for all of your amazing writing!
kurt had a good run and a very productive life, he will always be remembered.
kurt had a good run and a very productive life, he will always be remembered.
