Book
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
- “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” (Location 166)
- Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. (Location 167)
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” (Location 531)
- “People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.” (Location 1833)
- “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” (Location 2145)
- “Science is magic that works.” (Location 2352)
- God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away. (Location 2849)
- “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.” (Location 3020)