...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.
Weitere Zitate von Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zum Autor"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."
"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."
"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
"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!"
"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."