The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"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?"
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops."
"He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so."
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
"I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude."
"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."