KV
kurt vonnegut died today.
he was a pacifist, a socialist, an incredibly original writer, and a great american. here are a few tidbits from his oeuvre:
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
After a lifetime of too many thoughts I draw this conclusion: kindness is the only plausible reason for being here.
So it goes...
he was a pacifist, a socialist, an incredibly original writer, and a great american. here are a few tidbits from his oeuvre:
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
After a lifetime of too many thoughts I draw this conclusion: kindness is the only plausible reason for being here.
So it goes...
posted by Bill Simpson at 4/12/2007 10:27:00 PM
2 Comments:
change that to say: "The good earth -we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy."
From Man Without a Country: “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: the only proof he needed for the existence of god was music.”
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