“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
― Human Croquet
― Human Croquet
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”
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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― New Year Letter
― New Year Letter
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
The Vonnegut Reading Group
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Reading every Kurt Vonnegut novel and short story collection....in the order is was written!
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