The Telegraph has an article on literary tattoos. The above is from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. It would probably take me forever to decide on a quote. Perhaps something by Italo Calvino. Or from a poem. You?
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God, everything I think of is long. And the discomfort of getting a tat already turns me off. But I’d have to vote for, “If you try to hold back the hands of the clock, it’ll tear your arms out.”
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Solzenitsyn doesn’t really lend himself to short quotes, but it’d be great to get one by him right now.
“Simplify, simplify.” Thoreau
“What happens to a dream deferred?” – Langston Hughes.
Always chase your dreams.
It is hard to choose sometimes… I like the ‘dream deferred’ quote though. Much more elegant than the literal meaning.
-Nate
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So it Goes is from Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” I believe, not Slaughterhouse Five. Also the “asterisk” is from Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” and it represents an a–hole. A funny and brave tatoo!
Nope – “So it goes…” is most definitely a recurring phrase in Slaughterhouse Five.