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
memories mud
What memories for mud to have.
love real love-is
... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
life definitions stills
... life, by definition, is never still.
spiritual term inconsistency
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
sweet humanity planets
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
hurt mean thinking
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.
history
History! Read it and weep!
clever people world
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
dream thinking grandchildren
The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
writing people decline
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
dream grandchildren people
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
writing wonder wells
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.
writing thinking mountain
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
war grandchildren industry
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.