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Kurt Vonnegut “Celebrates” Earth Day | The Village Voice https://t.co/22MOWAykpP

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2020-04-22

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Died in 2007

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2020-04-12

Max Löffler created an illo for a reprinted book review from 1969 by Susan Lardner of the now-classic Kurt Vonnegut novel, "Slaughterhouse-Five," for The New Yorker.

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2020-03-17

Vonnegut and writer David O’Dell had fun lampooning Walter Cronkite’s CBS Apollo coverage with former astronaut Wally Schirra. (For instance Bud Williams describes his first impression of Mars looking much like the surface of his driveway at home in Dallas.)

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2020-03-14

World book day, so many choices.
Love this selection of children's books from 2019 from Brainpickings. https://t.co/8ZxdJDkq9b
... like The Fate of Fausto, a cautionary tale on the banality of belligerence by Oliver Jeffer's, inspired by Vonnegut’s homage to Joe Heller.

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2020-03-05

is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
KURT VONNEGUT

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2020-02-18

75 years on from the Dresden bombing, it's tough not to think of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. As aptly wrote, the repeated phrase 'so it goes' serves as a "placeholder for grief that we know we will never be able to return to and attend to in any adequate way."

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2020-02-13

“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages.
Goodbye”
— Kurt Vonnegut

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🎨 Mikhail Clodt (1832-1902)

Farewell

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2020-01-30

"A medium with a unique relationship with the concept of time meets a novel with much the same outlook." Check out this preview of & ' comics adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's seminal novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: https://t.co/JSltM0Lui3

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2020-01-10

Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Comes to Comic Books https://t.co/jRS9BMcpLQ

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2020-01-08

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.
― Kurt Vonnegut

Painting by Mary Armstrong

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2020-01-06

is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
KURT VONNEGUT

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2020-01-01

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." -- Kurt Vonnegut

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2019-11-19

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down
Vonnegut

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2019-11-13

March 13, 1972: PBS broadcasts "Between Time and Timbuktu," an original “space fantasy” based on work by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The mission of Prometheus 5 is told by TV anchorman Walter Gesundheit and ex-astronaut Bud Williams Jr, played by the comedy duo Bob and Ray. 3/5

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2019-11-11

♦️KURT VONNEGUT
Born on this day, in 1922

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction”

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2019-11-11

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down
Vonnegut

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2019-10-07

♥️

“There is enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut

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2019-09-24

is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
KURT VONNEGUT

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2019-08-29