Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1922
CountryUnited States of America
nice lying world
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
philosophy space three
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
bugs amber moments
There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.
bullying reality views
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
jesus matter said
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
believe imagination way
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
exercise laughing jogging
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
fighting different bombs
On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.
intelligent bird slaughterhouse-five
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
get-well recovery sick
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
book thoughtful past
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.
artist people function
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
cheerful reason yacht
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
mean writing math
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.