What did Kurt Vonnegut mean by: It is time for me to be dead for a little while – and then live again. - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA Copy
+ Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Awful, Imagination, Machinery, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Risk, Running, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Book, Hate, Ideas, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet Feraz Zeid, August 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Kurt Vonnegut, Patience, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Experience, School, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Artificial, Death, End, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Blessing, Literature, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France