...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we p…

Kurt Vonnegut
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...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1997). Hocus Pocus, p.19, Penguin
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Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Mother Night: A Novel, p.251, Dial Press
It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut is back on top, www.today.com. September 15, 2005.
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and … ▶
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group

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