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I'm Lauren, and I'm a proud groupie. I have a (probably unhealthy) obsession with Kurt Vonnegut: his words, his drawings, and his wisdom. From time to time you'll see more personal things on here, because it is my blog, but it's probably 95% Vonnegut. If you love Kurt, you're in the right place. |
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Notes"You hate America, don’t you?” she said.
“That would be as silly as loving it,” I said. “It’s impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn’t interest me. It’s no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can’t think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."Mother Night
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“I spoke of American loneliness…I said that all the damaging excesses of Americans in the past were motivated by loneliness rather than a fondness for sin.”
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Notes"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."Kurt Vonnegut (via hylaabrook)
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Notes"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
"Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via honeyforthehomeless)
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Notes"When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear bomb, Kurt sent me a copy of a very short letter he wrote to The New York Times: “I know of only one nation that has dropped nuclear bombs on innocent people."Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
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Notes"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."Kurt Vonnegut (via peak-society)
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Notes"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, ‘Science has now known sin.’ And do you know what Father said? He said, ‘What is sin?’"Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut (via a-jemsu)
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Notes"The highest possible form of treason,” said Minton, “is to say that Americans aren’t loved everywhere they go, whatever they do."Cat’s Cradle (via libertariancuber)
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Notes “The excrement has hit the air-conditioning, big time.”-Kurt Vonnegut
If you haven’t read Hocus Pocus, which is next on my list of Vonnegut-rereads, I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to ease into Vonnegut’s style of snarky foreshadowing without getting bogged down in the science fiction that characterizes much of his writing. If you’ve ever been interested in the Vietnam War, social class, or the sneaking suspicion that America is not as perfect as we’d hoped, Hocus Pocus is a must read.
