random Kurt Vonnegut quotes

[changingshades]

because I've started reading Sirens of Titan and just read his wiki page


We start with the last thing he ever wrote:
When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up
Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.''

[jason hissong]

So it goes.

[changingshades]

"This is a very bad book you're writing," I said to myself.
"I know," I said.
"You're afraid you'll kill yourself the way your mother did," I said.
"I know," I said.

[Shane W]

Wide open beavers.

[changingshades]

bad chemicals

[The Dyslexicon]

“You are what you pretend to be”

I’m shore I’ve messed it up but…

[changingshades]

All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet.

[jason hissong]

The passage early on in Sirens of Titan that always stuck with me was when the narrator describes the difference between doing something in style and something with style.

[DAVE]

"And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in Heaven now.' That’s my favorite joke."

[Patrick J]

"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."