How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
You know what I say to people when I hear they?re writing an anti-war book?? I say, “why don?t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.