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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialHere's the latest post on The Vonnegut Portfolio Substack. Thanks for checking it out and please subscribe! It's FREE!
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“When school began again, this fall, the students were pleased and surprised to find what once was a desert-like dust-bowl was covered with green sod and neat cinder paths.” article in The Shortridge High School Daily Echo – September 26, 1939.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Did you happen to see the letter in the Saturday Review of Literature, where a professor at Hunter named his ten favorite novels during the last ten years – and Mother Night was one of them?” – letter to Knox Burger – September 25 1963.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Letters from readers poured in, most of them saying that I was the sort of person who would have told Christopher Columbus to stay home.” – from “The Last Tasmanian,” published in Sucker’s Portfolio, possibly written around September of 1992.
@djp1974.bsky.socialThe truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
- #KurtVonnegut, 'A Man Without a Country'
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did.’” – from Timequake – published September 22 1997.
@saroyan.bsky.social#quotes #FoodforThought #masks #KurtVonnegut #self
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
― Kurt Vonnegut
@brianartmusic.bsky.social(All the "democracies" imo) The ruling class knows flattery will get you everywhere!
#brainwashingunderfreedom #thedeathstar #antiimperialism #mindfreedom #maga #bluemaga #abetterworldispossible #kurtvonnegut #nomasters #manufacturingconsent #freeyourmindandyourasswillfollow
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I’m on the second floor of the sort of frame house Penrod lived in. It’s crazy – all the land these people have, and they build their houses chockablock on teeny weeny lots.” - letter to Jane Vonnegut – September 21 1965.
@fictionwritingtips.bsky.social“Every sentence must do one of two things – reveal character or advance the action."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Do you always follow Vonnegut's advice?
#WritingCommunity #writingcraft #amwriting #WritersCommunity #KurtVonnegut
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I…must depart for the West Coast to hustle my own latest book, no roman fleuve, but the sweepings from the floor of a chop shop.” – letter to Sidney Offit – September 19 1991.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I’m crazy to get to work…I’ve had the moaning blues for four nights in a row.” – letter to Jane Cox – September 18 1941.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“American theater is coming to life again, and it’s so pleasant for old poops like us to write plays. We don’t have to describe anything, and there’s so much white space on every page.” – letter to Vance Bourjaily – September 17 1972.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I have stopped drinking. The only drawback seems to be that I can’t dance like Fred Astaire anymore.” – letter to Gail Godwin – September 14 1979.
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Your perfectly neat book about me and the others arrived yesterday. If you hadn’t supplied an index which pinpointed every mention of me, I wouldn’t have been able to put it down until I’d read it all.” – letter to Robert Scholes -September 11, 1967.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“A sound portfolio is a thing of beauty in its way, aside from its cash value. Putting one together is a creative act, if done right…” – from “The Foster Portfolio,” published in Collier’s September 8, 1951.
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@awholedamntown.bsky.socialA few very nice witches and parapsychologists have helped me in my life. Don't discount people just because the shit THEY do for fun ain't what YOU do for fun. God damn it, babies, you've got to be kind.