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bacon_masta · 02-22-2004, 02:27 PM

i really like this quote, as i believe it is true in contemporary society, but i can't remember who the hell said it. this is a rough approximation: cigarettes are the only honorable venue of suicide left to americans

moonstrucksoul · 02-22-2004, 03:31 PM

Quote:

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. ~Kurt Vonnegut

this is the best i could do. from http://www.quotegarden.com/smoking.html

rsl12 · 02-23-2004, 07:33 AM

the book is breakfast of champions.

bacon_masta · 02-23-2004, 06:21 PM

thanks moonstruck, that's it.....i'm digging your new avatar, btw

macmanmike6100 · 02-23-2004, 10:47 PM

kurt vonnegut...if anybody wants to donate some of his books to me, please be in touch! i read what I can at the public library (when I can) but would love to add some to my own "library"

his work is absolutely amazing. here is my favorite piece, an excerpt from "Thank You, Mr. Rosewater":

Quote:

There was a lot that Billy said that was gibberish to the Tralfamadorians, too. They couldn't imagine what time looked like to him. Billy had given up on explaining that. They guide outside had to explain as best he could.

The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that was twinkling bright and clear. They could look at a peak or a bird or a cloud, at a stone right in front of them, or even down in a canyon behind them. But among them was this poor Earthling, and his head was encased in a steel sphere which he could never tak eoff. There was only one eyehole through which he could look, and welded to that eyehole were six feet of pipe.

This was only the beginning of Billy's miseries in the metaphor. He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there was no way he could turn his head or touch the pipe. The far end of the pipe rested on a bi-pod which was also bolted to the flatcar. All Billy could see was the little dot at the end of the pipe. He didn't know he was on a flatcar, didn't even known there was anything peculiar about his situation.

The flatcar sometimes crept, sometimes went extremely fast, often stopped--went uphill, downhill, around curves, along straightaways. Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he had no choice but to say to himself, "That's life."

Mephisto2 · 02-24-2004, 03:12 AM

And so it goes

02-22-2004, 02:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
bacon_masta Psycho Location: i live in the state of denial	what famous person said this? i really like this quote, as i believe it is true in contemporary society, but i can't remember who the hell said it. this is a rough approximation: cigarettes are the only honorable venue of suicide left to americans

02-23-2004, 07:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
rsl12 On the lam Location: northern va	the book is breakfast of champions. __________________ oh baby oh baby, i like gravy.

02-23-2004, 06:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
bacon_masta Psycho Location: i live in the state of denial	thanks moonstruck, that's it.....i'm digging your new avatar, btw

02-24-2004, 03:12 AM	#6 (permalink)
Mephisto2 Junkie	And so it goes