“I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.” – letter to Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., October 15, 1947.
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.” – letter to Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., October 15, 1947.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“In the small town in which Nicky and I’d grown up, everyone knew whose son Nicky was – and no one doubted that he’d make our town famous as soon as he was full grown. No civic occasion was complete without his singing.”– from “$10,000 a Year, Easy,” possibly written in 1951.
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism is no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity is prescribed the Spanish Inquisition.” – speech on receiving the Carl Sandberg Award, Chicago, October 12 2001.
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“The greatest man to ever live will be the one that invents the real God, and presents the World with a book of His teachings. A Bible written in a Lunatic Asylum may be the answer.” – letter to Jane Vonnegut – October 11 1945.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I’m afraid my story about the rose is terrible, but after all it’s only about the fourth short story I’ve written in my life.” – letter to Jane Vonnegut, October 10 1945.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialI am persuaded that it is now impossible to govern well almost anywhere, and that national tragedies come and go of their own will, like thunderstorms. This makes endurance the most useful human skill.” – letter to José Donoso – October 9 1973.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialThe latest from The Vonnegut Portfolio is here! Summer of 1941! Thanks for checking it out and please subscribe! It’s free!
@dralant.bsky.social📚 'Used to be he'd buy on impulse, illogically, and industry would go nutty trying to figure out what he was going to buy next.' p. 166
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“How do you do? My name is Penelope Ryan. This is a simple-minded play about men who enjoy killing – and those who don’t.” – from Happy Birthday, Wanda June – first opened Off-Broadway on October 7, 1970.
New Substack post coming tomorrow: The Summer of 1941
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I am the erstwhile American painter Rabo Karabekian, a one-eyed man. I was born of immigrant parents in San Ignacio, California, in 1916. I begin this autobiography seventy-one years later." – from Bluebeard, published October 6 1987.
@cracked-skull.bsky.socialSo it goes, so it goes, so it goes.
#naturewalk #soitgoes #noahkahan #vonnegut
@ffaelan.bsky.social"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."~Kurt #Vonnegut
#Coneflower #Echinacea #Wildflower
#TwosDay #FlowerReport #ECK #WCK #Art #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Macro #FlowersOnBlueSky
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.” – from “Harrison Bergeron, published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 5 1961.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador, whose capital was Quito, high in the Andes Mountains.” – from Galápagos, published October 4, 1985.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“I read Aristophanes when I was fourteen. And I liked it very much, and of course read it, as fourteen-year olds do, because I was told it was dirty.” – from “A Talk With Kurt Vonnegut,” an interview with Robert Scholes in October 1966. Published in The Vonnegut Statement.
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@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“Without knowing what we were doing, Eliza and I were putting the traditional curse of monsters on normal creatures. We were asking for respect.” – from Slapstick, published October 1, 1976.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“What would a cabinet meeting be, after all, given our society and form of government, other than an adult’s version of a first grade’s Show and Tell?” – “Message of the Leaked Minutes”, published in The Nation, September 30 1978, then in Vonnegut By the Dozen, 2013.
