Kurt Vonnegut

This holiday season, I had the privilege of finally reading the book I have bought since a year, The Last Interview and other conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. It lays down his simple words and thinking with a lot of clarity. You can imagine him being right in front of you have a face to face conversation, from the true, sarcastic, funny voice he has. His simple excerpts are so powerful and lay a deep impact on one's thinking. A few listed here:

"I want a military funeral when I die, it will be a way of achieving what I have always wanted more than anything - something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war - The unqualified approval of my community"

"We should send literary notices not to the English departments, but to the chemistry, zoology, anthropology, astronomy & physics departments, medical & law schools. That's where the writers are most likely to be"

"Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years? that's how you pick a wife"

'He has reached Nietzsche's melancholia of everything completed'

"Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to do something with it"

"Practice an art, no matter how badly or how well you do it, it will make your soul grow, and not to become famous or rich. Have the experience of becoming"

"Just because there is no market for them doesn't mean you stop making them" (talking of any form of art)

"A writer's job is to use the time of a stranger such that he/she doesn't feel their time is wasted'

Such deep, wise truths in the simplest of articulations, being funny, serious & dreary at the same time. Loved his writing and made my day quite fresh. 

Will revisit his other books Breakfast of Champs and slaughter house 5, it's been too long.

Have a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2019 ahead.