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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
After reviewing these quotes attributed to Kurt Vonnegut I was amazed how many are salient to our community.
Jill (Angela Rasch)
Just heard
I guess I was slow in hearing this news.
RIP, father of Billy, Eliot, Kilgore and many more of my best friends.
Thanks for the hours of enjoyment and years of thought.
Jan
I have always liked:
This struck me years ago during an attempt (ultimately successful) to quit: "The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
And for those of us who struggle to put words on the page: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
Jamie
Bagombo Snuff Box?
The subject title is from a disasterous collection of Vonnegut's early writing in magazines published under that title. I only read his books; I laughed,I cried being young I felt informed. So,it was "SAD" to read his early efforts piled like old newspapers to make a few more dollars. They were not very good stories, but I have the gift of hindsight and now realize how much he grew as an author. So, there is hope for all?
Like many children of the 60's I loved Kurt Vonnegut. He even had a Tranny in "Breakfast Of Champions", I think, anyway one book did. It is good of Angela to pay homage here to a satirist who might actually have appreciated us, or maybe he did.
Cheers,
Gwen
Gwen Lavyril
Gwen Lavyril
Quoth the raven . . .
. . . "Would you quit staring at me? It's getting creepy."
Sorry about that. Okay, maybe I'm not really all that sorry, but I did feel bad about mangling such a famous line . . . a little. *giggling* What I was originally going to say before I was trying to come up with a pithy subject line was how much I liked all the quotes from Kurt Vonnegut. A lot of them feel like they could be applicable to both writers as well as transgendered people.
I've been wondering what quote I'd like to be remembered by and came up with the following:
I am a figment of my own imagination.
There may come a day when I cringe remembering this line. For now it fits a lot about how I feel about myself and my life. So to my future self I say *sticking out tongue*, "Cope."
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Heather Rose Brown
Author of Bobby's Rainy Day Adventure
But , Heather,...
...I think that quote is true of all of us, always. And we are all just images of our on creation as well. That's why people are so wonderful.
Hugs, Jan
Liberty is more than the freedom to be just like you.