Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#recovery

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#the-brothers-karamazov #life

No art is possible without a dance with death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#literature

in nonsense is strength ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nonsense

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#erring #mistakes #progress #responsibility #progress

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#goodbye