This is not soccer related, and may appear absurd to some, but since one of my favorite writers died last night, I thought I would enlighten the forum members that are interested with some of his quotes ~
http://www.vonnegut.com/ True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.”
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer
we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, In Humanity
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
- Kurt Vonnegut, In Loneliness
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- Kurt Vonnegut, In History
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please—a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Slapstick" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Love
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Education
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.
- Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five" ( $ ) ( ? ), In Hate
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours."
Kurt Vonnegut
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne."
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions,