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Breakfast of Champions
It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly—except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Rubin Sfadj added 6mo ago
an abbreviation which means sameness without end.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
“Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
If a person stopped living up to expectations, because of bad chemicals or one thing or another, everybody went on imagining that the person was living up to expectations anyway.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago
there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Keely Adler added 7mo ago