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Tag: Kurt Vonnegut

  • Sparkle and fade

    What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that flickered out. – Mother Night

  • Nothing has changed all over again

    ‘History is merely a list of surprises,’ I said. ‘It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.’ Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

  • A strikingly indecent society

    What made being alive almost worthwhile to me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I mean people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. and: It is daylight in Afghanistan. There are many unwelcome fires there, and, many, many human beings are trying to put them…