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All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64

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litreactor.com 13 Ways to Live And Write Like Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut knew how to write, and he knew how to live. Learn something.

litreactor.com Writing Lessons from the Dead: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut checks into Max’s hotel and refuses to put out his cigarette.

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January 11, 1984: “Fifteen years ago, Kurt Vonnegut foretold the emergence of artificial human organ implants in a play he wrote called Fortitude. Today Vonnegut describes that play, which he says is a tragedy…”
An interview with Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Stamberg? Check. Artificial hearts? Check check. A bonus interview with Vonnegut and Terry Gross from May 13, 1986? Here you go.

Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22′ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

Kurt Vonnegut (via austinkleon)

Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’”

Kurt Vonnegut (via gostraskhalana)

Kurt Vonnegut’s story shapes drawn into Google Correlate

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Taking a cue from Kottke, I plugged Vonnegut’s story shapes into Google Correlate using the drawing feature, and here’s what I got:
“person who is leading a bearable life, who experiences misfortune, who overcomes misfortune, and who is happier afterward for having demonstrated resourcefulness and strength” = hemorrhoids
boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again = yellow pages cleveland
creation myth = art blog
Old Testament creation myth = ultimate guitar tabs
Kafka’s metamorphosis = fruit machines
Cinderella story = Max & Erma’s