"Like so many Americans, she was tying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
— Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five
October 26, 2011
October 21, 2011
"If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still—if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
— Kurt Vonnegut, in Slaughterhouse Five
March 18, 2011
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
— Kurt Vonnegut
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