Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut

"And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time."

"In the past week, " she said, "I've been married to Othello, been loved by Faust and been kidnapped by Paris. Wouldn't you say I was the luckiest girl in town?"

"We wouldn't have the telephone today if Bell hadn't had the guts to call somebody up."

"The question experienced men like yourself usually ask is: how high can I go and how fast? And the answer to that is that the sky is the limit for a man with drive and creative ambition. And he can go fast or slow, depending on what he's willing to do and capable of putting into the job."

"Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for"

"Every character should want something, even if it's a glass of water. "

"Be a sadist. Make awful things happen to your characters in order that we can see what they're made of. "

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