#a man without a country

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"There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity -- the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in stories, after some terrible mess, the character is able to say at last, 'Today I am a woman. Today I am a man. The end.' When I got home from the Second World War, my Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, 'You're a man now.' So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it. Dan, that was my bad uncle, who said a male can't be a man unless he'd gone to war. But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.' So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (2005)

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R. Tanaka - “No trace of Mr. Braeckman”

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[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. "

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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From Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country

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Please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

—Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Kurt Vonnegut 

[papas-majadas]

Obligatory Kurt Vonnegut appreciation post.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Project "Propaganda and Awareness"COWARDS PosterGreat OM & Co ( Kloer illustración y street art )Feb 23 / May 22

"It Is Easier To Accept The Idea Of The Apocalypse And The Judgement, Of UFOs, Zombies And Gods In General, Than The Idea Of Radical Social Change"

[Gran OM]

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“And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.”

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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R.Tanaka - From the series “ No trace of Mr. Braeckman”

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Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without a Country (2017)

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