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"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
"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."
"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing."
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
"The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected."
"The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people dont acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."
"My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM."
"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
"Heres what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what were hooked on."
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)Bookmarking for future reference.
siligut
(12,272 posts)And so it goes
Ought to be on every teen's required reading list.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)I may try to do a search, now I need to know.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Thank you
progressoid
(50,013 posts)That was one of my faves.
siligut
(12,272 posts)And did he have a zoo filled with people? I may be confused, it was so long ago.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)The zoo is from Slaughterhouse Five.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)The aliens kidnap Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of the novel, and place him in a zoo on Tralfamadore with Montana Wildhack, a Hollywood starlet.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Though quite different, Piers Anthony and Kurt Vonnegut are similar in that one respect, sexy females under unusual circumstances.
G_j
(40,372 posts)"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
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Is that an asshole or is a character about to die?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut tells his friend, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller said, Yes, but I have something he will never have: Enough.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)azul
(1,638 posts)to see sometimes:
"Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
Thanks Bonobo
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)"The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected."
"My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM."
"Heres what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what were hooked on."