[New-Poetry] So it goes: Vonnegut, Nov. 11, 1922 -- April 11, 2007

[jforjames at aol.com]

The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human
beings, not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions,
and systems.
==1952. Player Piano.
 
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what
we pretend to be.
==1962. Mother Night.
 
Poverty is a relatively mild disease ... but uselessness will
kill strong and weak souls alike.
== 1965. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
 
Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should
care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with
language, which will be the most compelling and seductive
element in your style. 
==Quoted in Words of Wisdom, by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire,
1989. 
 
I like to say that the 51st state is the state of denial. It's
as though a huge comet were heading for us and nobody wants to
talk about it. 
== 2005. Interview, The Associated Press.
 
When I think about my own death, I don't console myself with the
idea that my descendants and my books and all that will live on.
Anybody with any sense knows that the whole solar system will go
up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. I honestly believe,
though, that we are wrong to think that moments go away, never
to be seen again. This moment and every moment lasts forever.
== 1974. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons.

 
 
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