Kurt Vonnegut

Galápagos

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  • Karohas quoted7 years ago
    Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended in Action alone
  • Karohas quoted7 years ago
    to respond to such new technologies. No female of any species, unless, maybe, she was a rhinoceros, could expect to give birth to a baby who was fireproof, bombproof, or bulletproof.
    The best that the Law of Natural Selection could come up with in my time was somebody who wasn’t afraid of anything, even though there was so much to fear
  • Karohas quoted7 years ago
    exterminated: by meteorites.
    To the Captain, it was such a much more honorable and poetical and even beautiful way for humanity to die than World War Three would be.
  • Oleksandra Alokhinahas quoted9 years ago
    Of course I love you,
    So let’s have a kid
    Who will say exactly
    What its parents did;
  • Oleksandra Alokhinahas quoted9 years ago
    This sort of confusion would be impossible in the present day, since nobody has a name anymore—or a profession, or a life story to tell. All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified. People are who they are, and that is that. The Law of Natural Selection has made human beings absolutely honest in that regard. Everybody is exactly what he or she seems to be.
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