Quotes from book
Bluebeard
Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian is a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared as a minor character in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions . Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel.
Source: Bluebeard (1987), p. 91, referring to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
“Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.”
Source: Bluebeard (1987), p. 144
“Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.”
Source: Bluebeard (1987), p. 82
