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Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Reading Writing

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Belief Spiritual Vonnegut Writing

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Beautiful Fake Fear People Shallow

I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I’m asked is where I went to college.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Humour

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Absorption Beauty Energy Grace Life Music

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Reading Reality

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Crazy Insanity Memories Pain Regrets

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Grace Insane Insanity Mental Illness

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Crazy Emotions Feelings Fun Insane Insanity Logical

In a funny way it's almost fun, having everything be so fucked up and managing to adjust. I guess you might say I'm proud. Proud of me, proud of my friends for managing to deal with this thing so well. For most people this would be the end of the world. They'd panic, their friends would panic. Things would get trampled in the stampede. But we've kept our heads, made the necessary allowances, ad can just ride this thing out.I'm pretty much just putting in time waiting for this cloud to blow over. Waiting for something to come along to make some sense out of all this. Killing time, waiting for some sort of cavalry to come over the hill. There's really not an awful lot I can do but wait. As long as there's no panic, we can hold out for damn near forever.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Memoir

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, It was enough to have been a unicorn. What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.

~ Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut Art Mental Illness
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