Kurt Vonnegut

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#mock-biography #science-fiction #humor

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#experience

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#men

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life

The horse jumped over the fucking fence. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#rabo-karebekian #wife #wives #humor

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor

We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful of who we pretend to be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#pretense #inspirational

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#inspirational

The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty