Archive for august, 2015
kurt vonnegut
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. (Kurt Vonnegut)
kurt vonnegut
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. (Kurt Vonnegut)
spitfire
Jeg har fået en ny flue, som jeg har navngivet “Spitfire”. Den lyder grangiveligt som om den er udstyret med en Merlin motor. (Walther F. Lake)
kurt vonnegut
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. (Kurt Vonnegut)
kurt vonnegut
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. (Kurt Vonnegut)
krizzehjælp
Jeg har lige basket en flue i køkkenet og straks flyver alle de andre ud for at få krisehjælp. Hvorfor har jeg ikke tænkt på det noget før? (Walther F. Lake)
jorge luis borges
“You belong to another time. You are lord
of a place bounded like a dream.”
(Jorge Luis Borges, “To a Cat”)
william s. burroughs
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.” (William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside)
doris lessing
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.” (Doris Lessing, On Cats)
neil gaiman
“‘No,’ said the cat. ‘Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.’” (Neil Gaiman, Coraline)
kurt vonnegut
Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants. (Kurt Vonnegut)
r.a. lafferty
His claws were retractable and his digits projective. (R.A. Lafferty, ‘Snuffles’, 1960)
r.a. lafferty
Harry Stonefoot, Gaster Blaster, & Helga Navel (three other high members of Glomerule) entered the meeting room. (R.A. Lafferty)
kurt vonnegut
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it’s a better argument against foxholes. (Kurt Vonnegut)
kurt vonnegut
Lovemaking is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple he gave to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz. (Kurt Vonnegut)
kurt vonnegut
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 center. (Kurt Vonnegut)