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
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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.
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But doing that job, surviving it, was like getting a Purple Heart. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
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I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.
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This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
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Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God
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Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.