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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Unofficial) @kurtvonnegutjr.bsky.social · Feb 1
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April 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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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steelestories.bsky.social
"Writers get to treat their mental illnesses every day."

Kurt Vonnegut
April 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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selzero.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut on "The Shape Of Stories" is superb.
youtu.be/GOGru_4z1Vc
April 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Illustration of Kurt Vonnegut by Betsy Streeter with a quote from him about how we are on the earth to fart around.
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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jaeb.bsky.social
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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gummyarts.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five was published on this date in 1969.
Colored-pencil card drawing of Kurt Vonnegut
March 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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drjaydrno.bsky.social
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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eduwyn.bsky.social
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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briannaduggan.bsky.social
Vonnegut.
March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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ralphsnyder.bsky.social
"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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readerofbannedbook.bsky.social
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
Drawing of author Kurt Vonnegut
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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debaser77.bsky.social
“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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jeffburtka.bsky.social
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/?...
Text that reads: I read in the newspaper that your community is mystified by the outcry from all over the country about what you have done. Well, you have discovered that Drake is a part of American civilization, and your fellow Americans can’t stand it that you have behaved in such an uncivilized way. Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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l-isme.bsky.social
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
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March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ihwright.bsky.social
Back on my bullshit (despairing about the state of the world and finding insight into the human condition in things Vonnegut wrote.)
It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine that. Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
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
A scrap of dark blue fabric is stapled to a utility pole with the words “I urge you to please notice when you are happy. - Kurt Vonnegut” stitched with white thread. A grey march day is visible in the background.
March 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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cafederussell.bsky.social
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 >>
Cita de Kurt Vonnegut: "Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something".
March 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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danscott77.bsky.social
“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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omgembroidery.bsky.social
A little Vonnegut appreciation. And only a little, a teeny tiny 2 inch hoop in fact.
A black embroidery hoop with cream coloured calico fabric with ‘so it goes’ stitched in black thread. The letters are slightly wonky block letters.
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they have of thinking that everything nice in the world is a gift to the poor people from them or their ancestors. The first afternoon I was here, Mrs. Buntline made me come out on the back porch and look at the sunset. So I did, and I said I liked it very much, but she kept waiting for me to say something else. I couldn't think of what I was supposed to say, so I said what seemed like a dumb thing. "Thank you very much," I said. That is exactly what she was waiting for. "You're entirely welcome," she said. I have since thanked her for the ocean, the moon, the stars in the sky, and the United States Constitution.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
March 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM