February 2011
2 posts
“The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (via happythings.)
November 2010
1 post
go kurt
“In the mid 1950s, Vonnegut worked very briefly for Sports Illustratedmagazine, where he was assigned to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped a fence and attempted to run away. After staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, ‘The horse jumped over the fucking fence,’ and left.”
via untzuntzbaby
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
PLAYBOY: In some of your books—especially The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five—there’s serious notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously, which implies that the future can’t be changed by an act of will in the present. How does a desire to improve things fit with that?
KURT VONNEGUT: You understand, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
via sciencefiction
May 2010
2 posts
“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via joyfuls) (via neuqueerculture) (via sugaronastick) (via cjc-in-484) (via k-troll)
April 2010
4 posts
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via hammerito)
“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via synecdoche)
March 2010
3 posts
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via marywachsmann) (via shaneguiter) (via capnkirk)
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via inennui)
January 2010
8 posts
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via 52books)
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via brighteryellow) (via soy) (via andrewmcclain)
December 2009
2 posts
“1. Find a subject you care about.
2. Do not ramble, though.
3. Keep it simple....”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via bibliotheque)
November 2009
17 posts
“He asked himself this: Where have all the years gone?”
– Slaughterhouse-Five (via violetlight)
“Goodness me, the clock has struck—
Alackaday, and fuck my luck.”
– Slaughterhouse-Five (via violetlight)
“It was about people whose mental diseases couldn’t be treated because the causes...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five (via violetlight)
[Billy Pilgrim] came slightly unstuck in time,...
“The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five (via violetlight)
“Why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don’t you take a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut via Cat’s Cradle (via brainfever) (via oldfilmsflicker) (via hammerito)
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut via God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (via brainfever) (via karikarikari) (via hammerito)
“This was when Billy first came unstuck in time. His attention began to swing...”
– Slaughterhouse Five (via violetlight)
“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...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via mouthfullofgommy)
“The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd. It looked...”
– 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...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via quote-book) (via lovehillaryann) (via vom)
“I just remembered something that happened in a high school course on civics, on...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Self-Interview” within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (via sarahspy) (via yaldabaoth)
“Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why,...”
– Cat’s Cradle
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via 52books)
October 2009
6 posts
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Happy Columbus Day!
(via thereisnowhy)(via absurdlakefront)(via callmemellowyellow)
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and...
“Life is nothing but high school … you get into real life and that turns out to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
September 2009
3 posts
