Terrell Plotzki > Terrell's Quotes

“She’d been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“It’s just a hell of a time to be alive,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“How can anybody in his right mind be against science?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“In every big transaction,” said Leech, “there is a magic moment during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is due to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on. If the man who is to receive the treasure is unused to wealth, has an inferiority complex and shapeless feelings of guilt, as most people do, the lawyer can often take as much as half the bundle, and still receive the recipient’s blubbering thanks.” The”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“they poisoned all their priests and tried enlightened atheism instead, which still meant they could kill as many people as they liked but didn’t have to get up so early to do it. The”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric: Discworld: The Unseen University Collection