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
men white-man america
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.
men yes-and-no answers
One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.
men earth helping
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
ideas cuckoos earth
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
world
Hardly anyone in the world is an American
insane charm occasions
The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
champagne
The champagne was dead. So it goes.
art hands elephants
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.
simple thinking way
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
trying littles god-life
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
beautiful silly walk-with-me
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
ideas apples giving
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
reality yale tv-shows
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".
self answers taught
Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.