"It won’t hurt when I get killed,” she said. “Just all of the sudden I won’t be any more"
— Kurt Vonnegut, in Mother Night
May 20, 2012
October 26, 2011
"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 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
January 7, 2011
"1492— The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."
— Kurt Vonnegut, in Breakfast of Champions
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