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Deadeye Dick QUOTES

Deadeye Dick QUOTES

1 " I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

2 " Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and hated everybody at the high school. She would like to claw away her face, she told us, so that people would stop seeing things in it that had nothing to do with what she was like inside. She was ready to die at any time, she said, because what men and boys thought about her and tried to do to her made her so ashamed. One of the first things she was going to do when she got to heaven, she said, was to ask somebody what was written on her face and why had it been put there. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

3 " I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

4 " People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

5 " That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

6 " To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

7 " The picture is supposed to go up just inside the front door, so it's the first thing you see when you come in. It's green. It's about the size of a barn door. It has one vertical orange stripe, and it's called 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony.' Mother wrote a letter to the paper, saying the picture was an insult to the memory of Father, and to the memory of every serious artist who ever lived. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

8 " And it's special meaning for me was this: It is proof that sometime back when my father was a young, young man, he must have had a moment or two when he felt that he might have reason to take himself and his life seriously. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

9 " Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

10 " To be is to do - Socrates.
To do is to be - Jean-Paul Satre.
Do be do be do -Frank Sinatra. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

11 " You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

12 " egregious.

most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd."
imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

13 " My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die.

There is evil for you.

We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true.

I give you a holy word: DISARM. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

14 " If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

15 " I was the great marksman, anyway. If I aimed at nothing, then nothing is what I would hit. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

16 " the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

17 " To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of un-differentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

18 " To be is to do’ — Socrates.
‘To do is to be’ — Jean-Paul Sartre.
‘Do be do be do’ — Frank Sinatra. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

19 " It's a widely accepted principle,' he says, 'that you can claim a piece of land which has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, if only you repeat this mantra endlessly: 'We discovered it, we discovered it, we discovered it.... "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick

20 " To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. I have caught life. I have come down with life. "

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Deadeye Dick