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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The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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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.
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We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
destiny feelings far-away
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
self want way
I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...
hate believe laughing
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
ideas cuckoos earth
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
champagne
The champagne was dead. So it goes.
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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.
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Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.
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He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.