@nile11.bsky.socialKurt Vonnegut's Final Advice on Art Resurfaces Decades Later
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https://nile1.com/kurt-vonneguts-final-advice-on-art-resurfaces-decades-later/
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@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.
@maickelronzino.bsky.social@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialThe latest from The Vonnegut Portfolio is here! Summer of 1941! Thanks for checking it out and please subscribe! It’s free!
@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.
@djp1974.bsky.socialYour #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #KurtVonnegut:
@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.
@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.
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.socialIf you haven’t seen it yet. The latest from The Vonnegut Portfolio is available. Thanks so much for checking it out!
@vonnegutportfolio.bsky.social“They’re starting to catch on that Mr. Vonnegut can be funny. That’s the only thing I know how to be, and of course never got a chance to be funny in Barnstable. You’ve got to take the goods with the bads.” letter to Jane Vonnegut – September 28 1965
@jojomineo69.bsky.socialWhat an absolute revelation and one as pertinent today to the success-oriented, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mentality of AmeriKKKa as it was when #KURTVONNEGUT was young.
@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.
