September 2011
30 posts
“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
August 2011
33 posts
“See the cat? See the cradle?”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart he never can keep his...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“I don’t think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“I think you’ll find that everybody does about the same amount of thinking....”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“The trouble with the world was that people were still superstitious instead of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“‘Anybody ever asks you what the sweetest thing in life is—-‘ said Lazzaro,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: ignore...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“How nice—-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“So it goes”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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122 quotes in the queue. One per day at precisely 5 PM Pacific time. My fingers are tired from typing.
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Just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“‘You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?’...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“In any war story, but especially a true one, it’s difficult to separate...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“In a true war story, if there’s a moral at all, it’s like the thread...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“The thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn’t the religious...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, becase war is also mystery and...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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aetatiss:
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she’s going to start to cry. I’m standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back...
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
“It was a comforting theory. It dispensed with all those bothersome little acts...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your...”
– Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery (submitted by pinsan) 