#kurt

Friends are nothing but a known enemy ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#enemy

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

Here's all she had to say about death: "Oh my, oh my. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#kurt-vonnegut #death

Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror! ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#morality #struggle #the-horror #change

Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#mother-night #love

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God” Kurt Vonnegut Jr ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

#kurt-vonnegut-jr #inspirational

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#courtney #courtney love #daughter #different #different person

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite... ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #courtney-love #family-relationships #gay #jealousy

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. ↗

— Christina Westover

#anger #blame #burn #christina-westover #enemies