Quotes from Galapagos
from Vonnegut, K. Galapagos publ. by Dell Publishing. © 1985.
ISBN 0-440-12779-3. Page numbers are from the Laurel paperback
edition.
Kudos to John Hutchinson who lent me the book.
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that
instigator of so many other sorts of heart-break: the oversize
brain. That cumbersome computer could hold so many contradictory
opinions on so many different subjects all at once, and switch
from one opinion or subject to another so quickly, that a
discussion between a husband and wife under stress could end up
like a fight between blindfolded people wearing roller skates.
- p.66
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which
way. Look at mine.
- p.98
They were dead now, and the sun was going down on a world where
so many people believed, a million years ago, that only the fit
survived.
- p. 151
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years:
When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole
story every time.
- p. 177
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those
old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect,
"Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we
would never do it of course. It's just fun to think about it."
...What her big brain certainly wasn't going to tell her was
that, if she came up with an idea for a novel experiment which
had a chance of working, her big brain would make her life a
hell until she had actually performed that experiment.
- p. 266
Ten minutes after an orgasm, guess what?
- p. 231