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) 