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CytatyKurt VonnegutUS novelist (1922 - )1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can?t see from the centre. If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. |
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