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Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Well, when it became evident that no governmental or economic reform was going to make the people much less miserable, the religion became the one real instrument of hope. Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I walked away from Frank, just as The Books of Bokonon advised me to do. "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Write it all down," Bokonon tells us. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

History!" writes Bokonon. "Read it and weep! — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

I do not intend that this book be a tract on behalf of Bokononism. I should like to offer a Bokononist warning about it, however. The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this: "All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies." My Bokononist warning is this: Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. So be it. *** — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

I thought this was trash.
Of course it's trash! says Bokonon. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Oh, a very sorry people, yes,
Did I find here.
Oh, they had no music,
And they had no beer.
And, oh, everywhere
Where they tried to perch
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,
Or the Catholic church. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you brave
and kind and healthy and happy. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Live by the foma1 that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. The Books of Bokonon. I: 5 — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god. — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma! — Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on. — Kurt Vonnegut