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
moving animal dancing
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
fighting hands passive-resistance
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
country war believe
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
baby war believe
Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.
war father home
Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.
wings feet tin
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
crazy kids fighting
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
kids harvard
Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
thinking people littles
A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
insanity goes-on vandalism
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
love life pistols
If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too."
eye sky entertainment
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
dad thinking catholic
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?