Mark Vonnegut Quotes

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• 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…
• None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
• Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
• Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
• 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…
• Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the…
• Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...
• And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question…
• I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a…
• When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk…
• My only hope was to be polite.
• As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning…
• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
• Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
• I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
• I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.
• Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care…
• Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
• I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know…
• My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends…

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