kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.
Kurt VonnegutBut he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, โI never asked to be born in the first place.
Kurt VonnegutAnd what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
Kurt VonnegutIf I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
Kurt VonnegutOr they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
Kurt VonnegutHumanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut