Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?”
“That’s the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards,” said Mrs. Berman. “You don’t write for the whole world, and you don’t write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.”
“So I put Slazinger to bed unassisted. I didn’t undress him. He didn’t have that many clothes on anyway—just Jockey shorts and a T-shirt that said, STOP SHOREHAM. Shoreham is a nuclear generating plant not far away. If it didn’t work the way it was supposed to, it might kill hundreds of thousands of people and render Long Island uninhabitable for centuries. A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible. I will say this about it, although I have only seen it in photographs. Never have I contemplated architecture which said more pointedly to one and all: “I am from another planet. I have no way of caring what you are or what you want or what you do. Buster, you have been colonized.”
“Now it's the Women's Turn”
“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”
“a painter whose pictures all came unstuck from canvas.”
“What’s the point of being alive,” she said, “if you’re not going to communicate?”
“What good is ‘Hello’?”
“What a coincidence! But that is all it is. One mustn’t take such things too seriously.”
“We look like a couple of gutshot iguanas!”
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