Fuck Yeah, Kurt Vonnegut!

“ My god - life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?

— Kurt Vonnegut. (via mineshaftgap)

“ Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut (via mouthfullofgommy)

“ The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd. It looked like a Sunday school picture of Heaven to Billy Pilgrim.

— Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (via mouthfullofgommy)

“ As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said — and calendars.

— Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (via mouthfullofgommy)

“ 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.’

— Kurt Vonnegut (via quote-book) (via lovehillaryann) (via vom)

“ I just remembered something that happened in a high school course on civics, on how our government worked. The teacher asked each of us to stand up in turn and tell what we did after school. I was sitting in the back of the room, sitting next to a guy named J.T. Alburger. He later became an insurance man in Los Angeles. He died fairly recently. Anyway— he kept nudging me, urging me, daring me to tell the truth about what I did after school. He offered me five dollars to tell the truth. He wanted me to stand up and say, ‘I make model airplanes and jerk off.’

— Kurt Vonnegut, “Self-Interview” within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (via sarahspy) (via yaldabaoth)

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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.

— Cat’s Cradle

“ Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via 52books)

walkwhilereading:

Dave Eggers yes that Dave Eggers, reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s new short story collection Look at the Birdie, for The New York Times.

walkwhilereading:

Kurt Vonnegut by Jim Rugg.