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“The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
“…but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people be right about things and still not agree.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
*Harmless Untruths
Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. So be it.
Cat’s Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
‘Maturity,’ Bokonon tells us, 'is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.’
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via dukeofbookingham)
When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything - and I advise you to do the same.
Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via quotespile)
Come get your fix, courtesy of Kurt Vonnegut.
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people’s vanity and foolishness.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus (via dukeofbookingham)
Travel-Raptor discovering Carl Sagan
Faves get their own shelf
ovid / x / bilbo fabriko / hozier / @sawasawako / gustave doré / kurt vonnegut / antonio canoza / tim siebels / “Portrait of a Lady On Fire”
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”
i will love kurt vonnegut till the day I die, you will never catch me lacking.
kurt vonnegut in a letter to knox burger
literally all of my favorite things have been connected to mash im oh so happy. Vonnegut? The Mountain Goats? You name it, someone in the mash fandom has made it!
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
Kurt Vonnegut (via macrolit)