The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"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."
"As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea."
"The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow."
"If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness."
"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE."