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“They were right to become intoxicated. Life without moments of intoxication is not worth a nickel”
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Kurt Vonnegut
April 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"Writers get to treat their mental illnesses every day."

Kurt Vonnegut
April 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut on "The Shape Of Stories" is superb.
youtu.be/GOGru_4z1Vc
April 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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She (Susan Sontag) was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust. And she said that, 'Ten percent of any population is cruel, no matter what. And ten percent is merciful, no matter what. And the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction'."
— Kurt Vonnegut
April 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five was published on this date in 1969.
March 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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In this mad, absurd, and raving world, I find Vonnegut a writer appropriate for our times.

I wasn’t particularly a fan when I was younger, but I now find myself reading more and more of him.
March 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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In a world obsessed with credentials and speed,
#Vonnegut invites us to pause.
To ask:
Is what I’m learning making me more human?
More kind?
If not, it’s time to change course.
#WisdomOverKnowledge
March 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Vonnegut.
March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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"Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead."

-- Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
March 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Do you realize that all great literature Moby Dick,Huckleberry Finn,A Farewell to Arms,The Scarlet Letter,The Red Badge of Courage,The Iliad and The Odyssey,Crime and Punishment,the Bible, and The Charge of the Light Brigade— are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?” Kurt Vonnegut
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.” - Kurt Vonnegut
March 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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From the article: Even the classic World War II novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut is on borrowed time. Booklooks. org points to explicit violence, swearing and “inflammatory religious commentary”

Vonnegut's response to a district burning his book: www.peabodylibrary.org/freeforall/?...
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Happiness is an uphill battle. Wear the good shoes.
~Kurt Vonnegut

#Wednesdaywisdom
March 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."

- Kurt Vonnegut
March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Back on my bullshit (despairing about the state of the world and finding insight into the human condition in things Vonnegut wrote.)
March 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy. - Kurt Vonnegut

57/100
March 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Los IA-bros no sólo son vagos y aprovechados; también son personas vacías que nunca han experimentado (ni van a hacerlo) lo que se siente al crear algo.
Cuando subes a un podio o estrado a recibir un premio, diploma o trofeo y escuchas los aplausos del público, la emoción que sientes está >>
March 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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“We are only healthy to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
• Kurt Vonnegut
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A little Vonnegut appreciation. And only a little, a teeny tiny 2 inch hoop in fact.
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM