mindful happiness

"I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it’s unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing."

Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

— 4 months ago with 27 notes

#favorite #vonnegut #kurt vonnegut #cat's cradle

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— 11 months ago with 13 notes

#vonnegut

One of my all time faves.

Also, currently reading his bio, and he was a bit ornery and prone to believing that he was wronged in life, but I’d still give anything to sit down over some angel food cake with him and just hash out life and books and the going-ons of the universe.

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— 11 months ago with 18 notes

#vonnegut #the best the best the best

— 1 year ago with 5 notes

#vonnegut #submission

"Life is hard enough, without people having to worry themselves sick about money, too."

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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— 1 year ago with 41 notes

#favorite #vonnegut

VONNEGUT JUST COME BACK AND HUG ME FOR A SECOND.

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— 1 year ago with 158 notes

#vonnegut #favorite #lit

"He couldn’t help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world over hate and fear us, would have been better spent on public education and libraries. It’s hard to imagine that history won’t prove him right, if it hasn’t already."

Mark Vonnegut, writing about Kurt Vonnegut

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— 1 year ago with 47 notes

#favorite #vonnegut

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— 1 year ago with 441 notes

#favorite #vonnegut

"‘I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,’ said the driver.
‘I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,’ Trout said. ‘It’s dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s serious, too.’"

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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— 1 year ago with 15 notes

#favorite #vonnegut

"No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat’s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X’s between somebody’s hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X’s…”
“And?”
“No damn cat, and no damn cradle."

Kurt Vonnegut; Cat’s Cradle

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— 1 year ago with 107 notes

#favorite #vonnegut

Vonnegut forever. And ever. And so on.

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— 1 year ago with 42 notes

#vonnegut #cat's cradle #bokonon

"We shouldn’t be seeking harrowing challenges, but rather tasks we find natural and interesting, tasks we were apparently born to perform."

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

I was thinking about this all day today. It’s just kind of perfect, I think.

— 1 year ago with 8 notes

#kurt vonnegut #vonnegut #favorite