Monday, January 28, 2008

great Vonnegut quote

From an interview with C.D.B. Bryan, "Kurt Vonnegut, Head Bokononist," New York Times Book Review, 6 April 1969, p. 2 (italics in original).

"I've worried some about why write books, when Presidents and Senators and generals do not read them, [...] and the university experience taught me a very good reason: you catch people before they become generals and Senators and Presidents, and you poison their minds with humanity. Encourage them to make a better world."

Yeah.

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