"The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service"

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Source : "Armageddon in Retrospect". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Introduction by Mark Vonnegut, www.npr.org. 2008.

Mark Vonnegut

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
“An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.”
“So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.”
“I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.”
“I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.”
“Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.”
“I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.”
“Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.”

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