"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on.”
“That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.”
“Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.”

Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co
“I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.”
“Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.”
“If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.”
“Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.”

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