The Tidier Life With Kurt Vonnegut

 'Laughter and tears are both responses 
to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, 
since there is less cleaning up to do afterwards'-Kurt Vonnegut

Let's Pretend ?

When Kurt Vonnegut wrote
'We are what we pretend to be'
he was not writing about sexuality
but he might as well have been.

He continued by warning
'So we must be careful... ',
he surely knew from then on
that his words were doomed to be ignored,
when they became a quotation.

We are never careful enough,
with quotations or with real life.
Maybe Sam Beckett had it best
when he said 'Fail Again, fail better'. 

Mother Night Indeed

 'The experience of sitting there in the dark, hearing the things I had said, didn't shock me. It might be helpful in my defence to sat that I broke into a cold sweat, or some such nonsense. But I had always known what I did. How? Through that simple and widespread boon to mankind - schizophrenia*.'. 

Quoted from page 116 of 'Mother Night' written in 1961 by science fiction writer, satirist and essay writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1922-2007). Here is the writers website.

*A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to a series of faulty perceptions, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality, and a withdrawal from personal relationships into fantasy and delusion. Overall a sense of mental fragmentation. It may well seem like a rational response when reality seems to be complex to the point of being intangible. 

It Has Been Said Before But It Is Worth Repeating

Creative Disgust

Some 'Do's' And 'Don't's' Worth Repeating

'Don't be reckless with other people's hearts,
don't put up with people who are reckles with yours....
Don't waste your time being jealous, sometimes you are ahead.
The race is long and in the end it is only with yourself.
Remember the compliments you recieve, forget the insults.
If you succeed in this tell me how you did it....   '-Kurt Vonnegut

Some Old New Years Resolutions Worth Renewing

'Don't be reckless with other people's hearts,
don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Don't waste your time on jealousy,
sometimes you 're ahead, sometimes you are behind.
The race is long, and in the end it is only with yourself. 
Remember the compliments you receive,
forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Comfortably Numb

'How nice to feel nothing and still get
the full credit for being alive'.- Kurt Vonnegut

Perfecting Disappointment

'If you want to really hurt your parents
but don't have the nerve to be gay,
the least you can do is go into the arts'
-Kurt Vonnegut

For A Tidier Life......

'Laughter and tears are both responses 

to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, 

since there is less cleaning up to do afterwards'-Kurt Vonnegut

Humility Through Learning

'Just because some of us can read
and write and do a little math
that does not mean that we deserve
to conquer the universe'-Kurt Vonnegut