Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died 7 years ago today - some of my favorite Vonnegut quotes: “She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cats Cradle “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you cant see from the center.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and dont let anybody tell you different.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five “To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra” ― Kurt Vonnegut “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five “She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five “I can have oodles of charm when I want to.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions “If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?” ― Kurt Vonnegut “The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldnt let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions “Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater “For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, thats Moses, not Jesus. I havent heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. Blessed are the merciful in a courtroom? Blessed are the peacemakers in the Pentagon? Give me a break!” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:11:15 +0000