Well, I’ve worried some about, you know, why write books… why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it’s been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with… humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it’s presumably to encourage them to make a better world. (ang.)
Kurt Vonnegut: Na czasie cytaty (strona 2)
Aktualne cytaty Kurt Vonnegut · Przeczytaj najnowsze cytaty„Była alkoholiczką. Nie winiłem się za to. Największym problemem w życiu alkoholików jest alkohol.”
She was an alcoholic. I didn’t blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol. (ang.)
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wrzasnął Pstrąg Zabijucha.
“She was a widow, and he stripped himself naked while she went to fetch some of her husband’s clothes. But before he could put them on, the police were hammering on the front door with their billy clubs. So the fugitive hid on top of a rafter. When the woman let in the police, though, his oversize testicles hung down in full view.” Trout paused again. “The police asked the woman where the guy was. The woman said she didn’t know what guy they were talking about,” said Trout. “One of the cops saw the testicles hanging down from a rafter and asked what they were. She said they were Chinese temple bells. He believed her. He said he’d always wanted to hear Chinese temple bells. He gave them a whack with his billy club, but there was no sound. So he hit them again, a lot harder, a whole lot harder. Do you know what the guy on the rafter shrieked?” Trout asked me. I said I didn’t. “He shrieked, ‘TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!’” (ang.)
Trzęsienie czasu
Źródło: rozdz. 14
I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. (ang.)
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Źródło: rozdz. 4, wyd. Zysk i S-ka, 2005, tłum. Lech Jęczmyk
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„Jedyna różnica między Bushem a Hitlerem jest taka, że Hitler został wybrany.”
The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected. (ang.)
„Ziemia jest jedyną planetą, na której wspomina się o czymś takim jak wolna wola.”
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spytał.
– Czyściec – powiedziałem.
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