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Don't look. The world's about to break.

See the cat? See the cradle?

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

"People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for?"

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, “It is done. People did not like it here.” #Peace

If there is a god, he sure hates people.

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” —Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. “Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?” she asked me. “The big show is inside my head,” I said.

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” #JWST

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

Today is Veterans Day, 104 years since the end of World War I. Originally Armistice Day, it is also Vonnegut’s 100th birthday. As always, I hope you all hold dear the ideals the day should signify, and remember Kurt—one of the great anti-war artists who ever graced the earth.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

See the cat? See the cradle?

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.