78 ordspråk av Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
 If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. '' |
| If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. |
| It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There is the implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. |
| It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. |
| It posed the question posed by all such stone piles: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big. |
| Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe. |
| Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. |
| Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. |
| Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. |
| Make love when you can. It's good for you. |
| Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated. |
| Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. |
| Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. |
| Men are jerks. Women are psychotic. |
| Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. |
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