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Kurt Vonnegut Galápagos: A Novel (1985)

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Kurt Vonnegut Dead-Eye Dick (1982)

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Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird (1979)

, 24 2012 . 15:12 +
verbava (free_readings) Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird

jail (261x400, 29Kb)Her second failure was as a wedding photographer. There was always an air of prewar doom about her photographs, which no retoucher could eradicate. It was as though the entire wedding party would wind up in the trenches or the gas chambers by and by.

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"Think of the new era that is being born. The world has learned its lesson at last, at last. The closing chapter to ten thousand years of madness and greed is being written right here and now - in Nuremberg. Books will be written about it. Movies will be made about it. It's the most important turning point in history." I believed it.
"Walter," she said, "sometimes I think you are only eight years old."
"It's the only age to be," I said, "when a new era is being born."

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He then quoted the harrowing thing that Jesus, according to Saint Matthew, had promised to say in the Person of God to sinners on Judgment Day.
This is it: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
These words appalled me then, and they appall me now. They are surely the inspiration for the notorious cruelty of Christians.
"Jesus may have said that," I told Larkin, "but it is so unlike most of what else He said that I have to conclude that He was slightly crazy that day."

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It is a hard daydream to let go of - that one has friends.

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I was incurious about the arrival of Virgil Greathouse. His arrival, like the arrival of any new prisoner, would be a public execution of sorts. I did not want to watch him or anybody become less than a man. So I was all alone in the supply room. I was grateful for the accident of privacy. I took advantage of it. I performed what was perhaps the most obscenely intimate physical act of my life. I gave birth to a broken, querulous little old man by doing this: by putting on my civilian clothes.

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Kurt Vonnegut Armageddon In Retrospect (2008)

, 19 2012 . 14:24 +
verbava (free_readings) Kurt Vonnegut Armageddon In Retrospect

Vonnegut-02 (260x400, 23Kb)Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

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But when Marx said that, back in the 1840s, his use of the word opium wasnt simply metaphorical. Back then real opium was the only painkiller available, for toothaches or cancer of the throat, or whatever. He himself had used it. As a sincere friend of the downtrodden, he was saying he was glad they had something which could ease their pain at least a little bit, which was religion.

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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

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The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided that you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.

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And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you dont already have one.

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

, 10 2012 . 14:51 +
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844841_resize (264x400, 40Kb)Hello. I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Heaven. That is why my parents did not pick up the cake at the bakery. I am not mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me. It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am really happy here! It's so much fun. I am glad the driver was drunk. If he hadn't been, I might not have got to Heaven for years and years and years. I would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. Everybody up here is happy- the animals and the dead soldiers and people who went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever sent them here.
Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do it. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it.

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You must be crazy as a fruitcake.

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Don't lecture me on race relations. I don't have a molecule of prejudice. I've been in battle with every kind of man there is. I've been in bed with every kind of woman there is-from a Laplander to a Tierra del Fuegian. If I'd ever been to the South Pole, there'd be a hell of a lot of penguins who looked like me.

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When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off of statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: It was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.

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Nothing's real to some people unless they've got photographs.

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Kurt Vonnegut Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) (1974)

, 19 2012 . 14:42 +
verbava (free_readings) Kurt Vonnegut Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)

9591_resize (260x400, 32Kb)I am charmed that you should call me in your program notes here a humanist. I have always thought of myself as a paranoid, as an overreactor, and a person who makes a questionable living with his mental diseases. Fiction writers are not customarily persons in the best of mental health.

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Scientists will never be so innocent again. Any young scientist, by contrast, when asked by the military to create a terror weapon on the order of napalm, is bound to suspect that he may be committing modern sin. God bless him for that.

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One trouble, it seems to me, is that the majority of the people who rule us, who have our money and power, are lawyers or military men. The lawyers want to talk our problems out of existence. The military men want us to find the bad guys and put bullets through their brains. These are not always the best solutionsparticularly in the fields of sewage disposal and birth control.

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There is a basic rule about tanks, and you should know it: The only man who ever beat a tank was John Wayne. And he was in another tank.

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I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almightyand sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.
What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

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Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus (1990)

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Kurt Vonnegut A Man Without a Country (2005)

, 31 2012 . 14:56 +
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Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (19161988) (1987)

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Kurt Vonnegut Little Drops of Water (2009)

, 07 2011 . 15:07 +
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Kurt Vonnegut While Mortals Sleep (2011)

, 15 2011 . 10:45 +
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9780385343732 (265x400, 26Kb)The women were shaking their heads to let Jenny know they knew what a trial it was to get a man to take care of himself. And the men were giving George secret looks to let him know they knew what a good pain it was to have a woman always treating you like a baby.

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A man who hasnt built up a certain immunity to love through constant exposure to it, he said, is in danger of being all but killed by love when the first exposure comes. He shuddered. Love scrambled poor Georges brains. Suddenly love was all that mattered."

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Old Spitfires smashed up, but what do they care? Women are always talking about how men ought to try to understand their psychology more, but I dont think they spend ten seconds a year trying to see things from a mans point of view.

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Train number 427, the Seneca, arriving on track four, said the voice in the loudspeaker. The voice seemed intent on shattering any illusions passengers might have of their destinations being better than what they were leaving. San Francisco was droned as cheerlessly as Troy; Miami sounded no more seductive than Knoxville.

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Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night (1961)

, 24 2011 . 14:11 +
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Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle (1963)

, 18 2011 . 10:45 +
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Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

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Kurt Vonnegut Timequake (1997)

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Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)

, 16 2010 . 16:41 +
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Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965)

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Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan (1959)

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Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

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Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano (Utopia 14) (1952)

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