Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't,' I said.'So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"
"When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, 'You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?"
"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
"He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government."