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Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut’s pen... read more
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“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
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“History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
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“2.“I was those seeds, I am this meatThis meat hates painThis meat must eatThis meat must sleepThis meat must dreamThis meat must laughThis meat must screamBut when, as meat,It’s had its fill,Please plant it asA Daffodil.””
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Any creation which has any wholeness and harmoniousness, I suspect, was made by an artist or inventor with an audience of one in mind.
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“History is merely a list of surprises,” I said. “It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”
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They were innocent great apes, with limited means for doing mischief, which, in my opinion as an old, old man, is all that human beings were ever meant to be.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, “Please—a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
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“‘Take no thought for the morrow,’” I told her, “‘for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.’
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Also: I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.
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FËDOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKI, the Russian novelist, said one time that, “One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education.” I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.
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The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief.
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Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
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Eliza and I believed then what I believe even now: That life can be painless, provided that there is sufficient peacefulness for a dozen or so rituals to be repeated simply endlessly.
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First Sentence edit
This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 7 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1976. (authoritative list)
Preceded by 1876, and followed by The Lonely Lady.
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- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)
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Publication Date: 1976
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Page Count: 274
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- Dewey: 813.54
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