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
people thanks opinion
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.
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Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
beautiful thinking useless
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
beautiful girl beautiful-girl
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
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He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.
forget-everything forget forget-it
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
nice mean thinking
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.
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He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
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We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
common-decency littles slapstick
Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
writing thinking fool
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
lying thinking people
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
home turtles able
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.