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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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“Almost nobody’s competent, Paul. It’s enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.”
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One cannot simply leave Vonnegut misquoted, even if it’s on a bathroom wall.
I fixed it. This is why one should always carry a pen.
^Hero
(Source: thesewindmills)
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Notes"People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories."Kurt Vonnegut (via mistahroozers)
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Notes"That’s the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they’re wonderful, and that they’re going to have a baby that’s wonderful, when actually they’re as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we’re so wonderful doesn’t mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much."Kurt Vonnegut (via rarararambles)
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I’m almost done with Hocus Pocus. It’s wonderful.
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Notes“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish people who are conventionally supposed to love each other, when they fight, ‘Please- a little less love, and a little more common decency”
- Kurt Vonnegut
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(Source: asthenophobiaa)
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You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine — couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Notes"‘This — this is friendship indeed,’ I said. ‘I hope so,’ he said."Mother Night by Vonnegut (via raymondkim)
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Notes"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn’t own doodley-squat, so they couldn’t improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead."
