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Iconic writer Kurt Vonnegut’s simple graphs show how to write the 3 stories everyone loves
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/kurt-vonnegut-how-to-wrrite-stories-advice-ex1/
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"The arts are not a way to make a living. They're a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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"I've always regarded art as a sort of conversation. A novel is a conversation between the author and the reader. A painting is a conversation between the painter and the person who looks at the painting. A symphony is a conversation between the composer and the listener."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Died this day: 04/11/2007 (b. 11/11/1922)
Kurt Vonnegut was an American SF author whose satirical novels blended absurdist humor with social commentary. His masterwork Slaughterhouse-Five drew on his WWII experience as a Dresden POW.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
#KurtVonnegutPoster Art by MartiMenta
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Second half of free reading #poem #library #books #atwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut
bookshop and library tour of my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird https://www.robinince.com
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This is the first half of my #poem about the freedom to read and those who fight for it #library #books #margaretatwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut
I will be on a bookshop and library tour if my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal www.robinince.com
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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Reed Morano Set To Direct Film Adaptation Of Kurt Vonnegut Novel ‘Player Piano’
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Simplest, Hardest Secret of Happiness
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and grow our wings on the way down.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
-- Kurt Vonnegut⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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I'm reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos".
This is a novel from **1985**... and, while it's not "great", I'd still recommend it for anyone living this current time, plus, it's kinda funny.
It manages to:
- describe AI techno-bros as what they are: self-centred assholes.
- (shallowly) describe incels before those were a concept in our collective imagination.
- (very subtly) establish a clear connection between all those self-proclaimed "apolitical" people and... nazis. -
From the vaults!
(As we wait for me to get off my butt and edit new episodes of Re-Creative).
In this episode from the first season of Re-Creative, Mark and I discuss Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut.
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#narrativa #literatura #psicologia
Autor: #KurtVonnegut ✒️📖✒️
«Sé gentil. No dejes que el mundo te endurezca. No dejes que el dolor te haga odiar. No dejes que la amargura te robe la dulzura. Siéntete orgulloso de que, aunque el resto del mundo esté en desacuerdo, todavía crees que es un lugar hermoso.» -
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any #American to make money.
“They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.”
#KurtVonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/james-baldwin-joan-didion-92ny-recordings.html
#HackerNews #JoanDidion #KurtVonnegut #Literature #History #Tapes
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Fifteen best books first read in 2025
Listed below are the fifteen books enjoyed most during 2025. All were first read this year. As is usual, and as can be seen from the list, non-fiction is strongly preferred over fiction. Nearly a century of literature is represented below with Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop novel being the oldest. Seven (7) of the 15 books listed were written by or principally by women, including my top-rated book for 2025.
Peace and good reading to all!
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**All of the book images below were sourced through bookshop.org.**
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- The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic (2015) by Ginger Strand
2. A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Rebirth of Urban Housing (2024) by Max Podemski
3. Lost In Austin: The Evolution of An American City (2024) by Alex Hanford
4. Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture (2025) by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson
5. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail (2023) by Joan M. Griffin
6. Adventure North: 2,200 Miles By Canoe (2016) by Sean Bloomfield
7. Music City Musings: Old Nashville Knowledge for Newcomers (2024) by Michelle Stiva
8. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA (2019) by Amaryllis Fox
9. Now Is the Time: A Van Life Road Trip (2025) by Andrew Singer
10. The Fire and the Darkness: Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (2020) by Sinclair McKay
11. The Crossing: El Paso, The Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story (2025) by Richard Parker
12. The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation (2022) by John Lancaster
13. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) – Willa Cather
14. Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How To Disrupt It (2025) – Tonika Johnson and Maria Krysten
15. How To Resist Amazon And Why (2022) by Danny Caine
#airRaces #amazon #canoeing #chicago #cia #cities #dresden #elPaso #environment #fun #geography #hiking #history #homes #houses #housing #kurtVonnegut #landUse #muirTrail #nashville #planning #religion #roadTrips #segregation #spies #technology #trails #travel
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@ColinTheMathmo In one of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, each chapter has an epigraph, and the source is always given as “So-and-so's Great Book of Quotations”. Maybe we should follow this convention. 🙂
Or better, there should be a convention that distinguishes between quotes with a well-established origin and those for which it is not known. (One could write “Attributed to Oscar Wilde” in the latter case, maybe.)
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Kun tunne selättää järjen.
Kun ihminen päättää, ettei Kampintorin divarista lähdetä koskaan tyhjin käsin, piste.
Kun hän ymmärtää, että jos hän jättäisi tämän kovakantisen, upeakuntoisen ”Jumala Teitä siunatkoon, herra Rosewater”:in em. liikkeen hyllyyn, hän katuisi loppuikänsä.
40 €.
Mielenrauhalla on hintansa.
Eikä se nyt n i i n kallis ole. 📚
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
-- Kurt Vonnegut⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Decency #Indecency #Sainthood
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork