Kurt Vonnegut

[Dechristo]

"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.

 

 

[sk]

damn it, that just ruined my whole day

[AlpineK]

I just heard that on the radio. That's a bummer He had some great books.

[dan_forester]

some great essays too

[phillygoat]

"We do, doodley do, doodley, doodley do,

What we must, muddily must muddily must, muddily must;

Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,

Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust."

[selkirk]

the world is a poorer place.

 

What was the disclaimer at the beginning of all of his books?

 

 

"All people and places are purely coincidental." (? is that right?)

[sexual_chocolate]

Jesus people, the world is a RICHER place since he brought what he brought to it!

 

Quit yer bitchin' and whining. He lived wayyyyy longer than he ever thought he would.

[BillA]

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[ZimZam]

RIP native son.

[lI1|1!]

"... so it goes"

[jordop]

Q: So is this really the final book? Timequake was supposed to be your farewell, and then Dr. Kevorkian came along.

 

VONNEGUT: I don't fucking know. I keep thinking I'll die. Why do you think I smoke so much?

 

Q: How many packs are you up to a day?

 

VONNEGUT: Never mind. It's none of your fucking business. Fuck off—you know what I'm saying?

 

Q: You were one of the few people to walk out of Dresden. Now, some fifty years later, you're among the last men standing.

 

Vonnegut: Every so often I run into someone on the street who announces to me that they are really a survivor. I mean, who the fuck isn't? If you're not dead, you're a survivor. [Laughs]

 

Q: When I was reading Dr. Kevorkian, I was reminded a bit of a Japanese film from a couple years ago called "Afterlife."

 

Vonnegut: I haven't heard of it.

 

Q: It's premise is that those who have recently died are taken to a waiting room for one week, during which time they must choose only a single memory from their entire lives which will endlessly replay for them, while all of their other memories are erased.

 

Vonnegut: So everybody's fucking, right?

 

 

 

 

 

[archenemy]

My hero.