“This book is full of belly laughs, but I am suspicious of belly laughs as entirely happy experiences. The only way to get a belly laugh, I’ve found, is to undermine a surface joke with more unhappiness than most mortals can bear.” -Kurt Vonnegut
Anybody else got any great Vonnegut quotes, or quotes by anyone that stick with this sunny Labor Day weekend theme?
August 31st, 2007 at 5:58 pm
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Yeah! I almost posted that one.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:04 pm
“This cold sore on my tongue is making eating difficult.” KV
August 31st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
Both of those are from ‘Hocus Pocus’, my favorite of his later works.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Nice stuff, ya’ll.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I’m getting this tattooed on my arm.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Awesome Zak!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:49 am
“So it goes.” Tattooed on the back on my neck. Love you, miss you KV.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Charmed by your look on his effect. He is my favourite agnostic saint. If only he had figured out how to live joyfully as he told ridiculous truth to the rest of us.
March 24th, 2008 at 6:29 am
I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:55 am
“how beautiful-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive”
August 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
DOES ANYONE HAS A PHOTO WITH KURTS GRAVESTONE?? I REALLY NEED THIS PIC..
(sorry for my bad language)
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