"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. And if I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, “Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"
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Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard - Lapham’s Quarterly: Vonnegut analyzes several classic stories and finds that “Shakespeare was as poor a storyteller as any Arapaho.” Guy studied anthropology and said it was a “big mistake” because “I can’t stand primitive people—they’re so stupid.”
Nothing like him.
