Vonnegut: Slapstick

Summary: Slapstick by Vonnegut . (Stub — expand from highlights.)

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Last updated: 2026-05-07

Quotes

Concept

“The concept of ‘Artificial Extended Families’ was designed to cure the loneliness that was destroying the American soul.” (p. 15)

Behavior

“Humans behave like magnets; we are constantly looking for a North Pole to tell us which way to point our lives.” (p. 48)

Game Theory

“The game of life in a collapsing society is simply to find a way to be ‘Lonesome No More’ without going broke.” (p. 112)

Cognition

“My sister and I had a single, unified cognition when our heads were together; apart, we were just two idiots.” (p. 67)

Memory

“History is just a memory of things that didn’t work, told by the people who weren’t there to see them fail.” (p. 198)