#kurtvonnegut — Public Fediverse posts

Já há muitos anos que não leio livros de ficção e então decidi tentar retomar o hábito com as novelas completas de aquele que é considerado um dos melhores escritores do Século XX: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007). Bem, se calhar isto foi mais um pretexto que arranjei para encomendar dos EUA livros da Library of America (LOA) que por si só, são objetos físicos muito bonitos. As bibliotecas públicas das grandes cidades dos EUA estão pejadas de livros da LOA, todos devidamente encapados. Como infelizmente, nenhum destes livros estão disponíveis em bibliotecas de Portugal, tenciono começar a coleccioná-los por cá.

Na verdade, confesso que estou um bocado cansado com livros de não-ficção e começo a pensar se bons livros de ficção escritos por ótimos autores não serão melhores a retratar o presente e o futuro que livros de não-ficção. Outros autores publicados pela LOA que também tenciono coleccionar: Philip K. Dick, Don DeLillo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Steinbeck, Ernst Hemingway... e por aí vai...

#Books #KurtVonnegut #Vonnegut #Livros #LOA #LibraryOfAmerica

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Humanism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

Go Buy a Record

“What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”

J. Patrick Patterson, October 1, 2026

" #KurtVonnegut (a former #InTheseTimes senior editor, by the way!) once told a story about refusing to buy 100 envelopes online: ​'I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope,' he said. ​'I meet a lot of people.' The moral, he said, was that we’re here to enjoy the world and the people in it, a facet of human life computers have changed. Vinyl is the envelope. It makes you leave the house. ​'And, of course, the computers will do us out of that,' he said. But ​'what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.' "

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-idea-vinyl-music-hipster-spotify-kurt-vonnegut

#SolarPunkSunday #Vinyl #VinylRecords #RealMusic #RetroMusic #LowTech #NoAIMusic #AISucks #MusicByHumans #ListeningParty #HumanConnections #Records #BuyARecord #RecordStores

Harrison Bergeron

Welcome to the future.
It's a no-brainer.

https://youtu.be/G1LE-E_Yn_Q

#idiocracy #dystopia #kurtvonnegut

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

A quotation from Vonnegut

   And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
   So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 1 (1969)

More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/860…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kurtvonnegut #defiance #humannature #lookingback #lookingbehind #past #remembrance #retrospection

Courthouse News Service: Vonnegut heirs can proceed with challenge to Utah book removal law. “A federal judge allowed the heirs of Kurt Vonnegut to proceed Tuesday with their First Amendment challenge to a Utah law that calls for the removal of books with ‘sensitive’ material from the state’s public schools.”

Today's Pirate Ontology is all about dark humor and why we need it. (Especially these days, but I'd argue humans require it always.) It's an essay you can check it out on my website directly:

https://markarayner.com/what-is-dark-comedy-and-why-do-we-like-it-so-much/

#darkhumor #darkcomedy #gallowshumor #kurtVonnegut #humor #humour

Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless Your Mr. Rosewater is more poignant than ever.

It opens: A SUM OF MONEY is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

#humanism #kurtvonnegut #books

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

#kurtvonnegut #quote #time

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/books/kurt-vonnegut-playboy-interview/

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/12/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/12/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/

I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
-- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Existence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

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 #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

Välillä on kai tervettä pysähtyä miettimään, että jos nyt kerran on olevinaan niin totaalisen USA-vastainen, niin miksi ihmeessä työhuoneen nurkassa roikkuu tilaustyömaalaus kaikkien aikojen suurimmasta amerikkalaisesta?!? 😵‍💫📚 #Kirja #KirjaMastodon #KurtVonnegut

A quotation from Vonnegut

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
A Man Without A Country, ch. 9 (2005)

More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/385…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #Beatitudes #Christianity #churchandstate #Decalogue #hypocrisy #Jesus #mercy #Moses #peace #religion #TenCommandments

True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/26/vonnegut-marriage-divorce/

True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/26/vonnegut-marriage-divorce/

Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/25/kurt-vonnegut-advice-to-children/

Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/25/kurt-vonnegut-advice-to-children/

#zitate #grausamkeit #gehorsam #befehl #autoritaet #kurtvonnegut

@MostlyHarmless

they used to do this a lot (relatively speaking) in the past

for example in 1930 the #indiana bell building was rotated 90 degrees with 600 people still working inside, and gas/ heat/ electricity/ water/ sewage/ telephone still functional

https://indianahistory.org/blog/instead-of-moving-mountains-they-moved-a-building/

(weird side fact: the architecture firm that did this was established by #kurtVonnegut's granddad, and it was his dad who suggested they move it instead of demolish it)

#talkingHeads #kurtVonnegut #goals

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1010899/ Slaughterhouse-Five (or the Children’s Crusade) – Southwark Playhouse Borough, London #AlexCrook #BillyPilgrim #Britain #CalumPerrin #DouglasBaker #Dresden #England #EricSimonson #EthanReid #GreatBritain #JamieRycroft #KurtVonnegut #LaurelMarks #london #PatrickMcAndrew #Review #SlaughterhouseFive #SofiaEngstrand #SouthwarkPlayhouse(Borough) #Theatre #UK #UnitedKingdom

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Decency #Indecency #Sainthood

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Kurt Vonnegut, Ton van ’t Hof, 2026, acryl op papier, 50 x 40 cm
#painting #portrait #kurtvonnegut

A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut

   And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
   So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Essay (2004-08-06), “I Love You, Madame Librarian,” In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30)

More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/840…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #bookbanning #bookburning #censorship #freedomofthought #librarians #library #privacy

https://www.europesays.com/ie/515669/ Daring to recognise the potential of loneliness to cause harm – and of connection to heal – The Irish Times #DublinDocklands #Éire #ElvisPresley #Health #IE #Ireland #KurtVonnegut #Loneliness #MaynoothUniversity #StJamessHospital #TrinityCollegeDublinTcd #WorldHealthOrganisation

The Art of the No Deal

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/05/17/the-art-of-the-no-deal/

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/

Iconic writer Kurt Vonnegut’s simple graphs show how to write the 3 stories everyone loves

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/kurt-vonnegut-how-to-wrrite-stories-advice-ex1/

"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

#KurtVonnegut #Quote #Art

"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

#KurtVonnegut #Quote #Art

https://www.europesays.com/ie/441786/ Kurt Vonnegut’s Drawings Are Collected in a New Coffee-Table Book #AManWithoutACountry #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #BreakfastOfChampions #CarolinaDeArmas #cubism #Design #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #KurtVonnegut #KurtVonnegutDrawings #NanetteVonnegut #PeterReed #SlaughterhouseFive #WorldWarII

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

Far apart

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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It’s only five sentences!

As Vonnegut said, if you can’t write well, you probably don’t think as well as you think you do. There was something about a particular project that wasn’t clicking for people. I couldn’t describe what was wrong—why I couldn’t communicate clearly. The more I talked to key confidantes, the more I tried to explain it, and the more I listened, the more convinced I became that I didn’t know what I was talking about. I didn’t have something straight in my thinking. So I asked for a meeting of minds to craft a clear explanation. To write it clearly, I believed I would need to clarify my thinking.

Four people sat down to write a better description of a project. It took over four hours to write five sentences. They’re not particularly complicated sentences. The affect—the change in my perspective, the things I now see have been done wrong and need changing… The affect is vertiginous. I’ve begun sharing the sentences with key confidantes. I’m letting them set and I’m picking them up at intervals to see if their power persists.

Forget about my five sentences.

What’s something you could solve, improve, or take to a new level if you sat down and crafted five perfect sentences?

Could you do it in four sentences? …how about three? …two? …what about one?

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If you can’t write clearly

If you can’t write clearly, you probably don’t think nearly as well as you think you do.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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Be soft!

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the 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 the world to be a beautiful place.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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