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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Kurt Vonnegut
Summer, Spring, Sleep
Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Look At the Birdie”, p.7, Random House

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Kurt Vonnegut
Sleep, Suits, Hunger
Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.175, Delacorte Press

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Kurt Vonnegut
Nature, Philosophy, Sleep
FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

Kurt Vonnegut
Queens, Nice, Sleep

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