Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard.
Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the
bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that
even though the rest of the world may disagree,
you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
~Kurt Vonnegut






Whats your favorite passage or quote from your favorite author?

As soon as I saw this thread, I immediately thought of Kurt Vonnegut. You already posted one of his, but oh well. He has too many great quotes.

"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun.
This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt."
- Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-five

Not too sure why. But that always gives me the chills (as did most of the book), whenever I read it.

Also this, from the same book.
"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Thanks for the add! by far one of my favorite books of all time!



I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days
in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

~Jack London, Jack London's Tales of Adventure

Got a few from this dude:
"Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers."

"A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions."

"When you feel the pressures of limitations, then you begin to die . . . and you die in a prison of your own choosing."

"The mind imposes an arbitrary framework called "reality," which is quite independent of what the senses report."

"Talk: The theory that you can get somewhere if you keep putting one word in front of another."
- Frank Herbert

Yo My Brother! Wish it was available on my Kindle.. Or maybe I just missed it

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;
persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot- BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.
- Mark Twain, front matter to Huckleberry Finn

Twain wanted people to read his book, not scrutinize it for morals and messages, much less a plot structure.

This post was edited by 2Legit2Quit)aS( on Jan 9 2013 12:26am

That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die

-- Lovecraft, The Nameless City

This post was edited by furbyjs on Jan 10 2013 03:00pm

to say "i love you" you must first be able to say "I"

-ayn rand

Nice

Being a good Lutheran (in culture) my favorite quote is Graham Greene criticizing pious Catholics in The Power and the Glory, but this was more readily available:

'One may say, broadly speaking, that Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good.'

-Bertrand Russell