I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I’m kidding.
For instance, Join the National Guard or Marines and teach democracy. I’m kidding.
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I’m kidding.
If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding.
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Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country
I thought of this for some reason yesterday.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anyone tell you any different.
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Kurt Vonnegut
I will spend today farting around in your honor, KV.
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I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday! (1973). (via hammerito)
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Why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. Why don’t you take a flying fuck at the moooooooooon!
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Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick (1976).
This one’s for Anon.
(via hammerito)
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
If what he said was good, what does it matter whether he was God or not? And my lord, he said so many good things. We humanists try to be behaved as decently and as fairly as possible without any expectation of reward or punishment in the afterlife.
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Kurt Vonnegut - the more important quote from the that speech.
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FML’s from the Armenian Genocide.
From this article I did with Chasino a long time ago. Still one of the things I’m most proud of on the internet, mainly because I got to slip an obscure Vonnegut reference in there.
Also, relevant to the last post.
synecdoche:
this is a shirt that i desperately need to own.
That girl has an asshole on her titty.
nomnomnom2011:
walkwhilereading:
Spurred on by the Vonnegut collection that’s not mine and Jeff’s collection, I thought I’d take a picture of my meager Vonneguts. I know there’s a major omission in Slaughter House-Five not being pictured. But to be honest I don’t want to buy it new. I’ve been looking for it used for a lifetime. Finding Vonnegut at a used bookstore is like finding the Golden Ticket. I’ll find Slaughter House-Five one day, I just have to believe. As well Jon correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that your copy of God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian..?
*drool*
Almost all mine are just the Dial Press editions with the big V and the black horizontal lines for the titles. Which I kind of like, but I’m still jealous.
