1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before
Tag: Kurt Vonnegut
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don?t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.