MEMORABLE LINES IN KURT VONNEGUT's book "A Man Without a Country"...by Joyce Schwarz blogging at www.hollywoo2020.blogs.com.
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Yes, there are some terrific lines in Vonnegut's book. We want to share some of them with you and urge you to read the book yourself...
ON GREAT LITERATURE: --"Do you realize that all great literature --Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Crime & Punishment, The Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade -- are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being?"
ON CRITICS: "Critics feel that a person cannot be a serious artist and also have had a technical education, which I had....Most of our critics are products of English departments and are very suspicious of anyone who takes an interest in technology.
SCIENCE FICTION: "I became a so-called science fiction writer when somoen dcreed that I was a science fiction writer...I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schnectady, New York..."
TECHNOLOGY: "I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."
"I've been called a Luddite. I welcome it."
"Our children have inherited technologies whose byproducts, whether in war or peace are rapidly destroying the whole planet as a breathable, drinkable sstem for supporting life of any kind" .
ON CREATIVE WRITING: "First rule. Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite, hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
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