+ There are plenty of good reasons for fighting. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Kurt Vonnegut, Fight, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ [I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Mountain, Writing, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Feraz Zeid, December 20, 2022January 10, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Baby, Be Kind, Kindness, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ If facts weren’t funny, or scary, or couldn’t make you rich, the heck with them. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Fact, Scary, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Break, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kurt Vonnegut, Saint, 0 - Kurt Vonnegut Author · USA
+ Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 26, 2023, Kurt Vonnegut, Physiological, Response, 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