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 years curiosity
What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.
careful pretend
We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
almighty god good hate hates himself imagine plenty reasons
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
slaughterhouse-five chaos slaughterhouse-5
All this happened, more or less.
funny sarcastic witty
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
slaughterhouse-five awful might
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
slaughterhouse-five love-one-another slaughterhouse-5
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
funny mad water
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
modern-life may chiefs
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5 slaughter-house-five
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.
faces saving sense-of-humor
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
perfectly-normal fire favors
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.
fun animal years
People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.
home sharks white
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!