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
character printed-word want
I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.
slaughterhouse-five amber matter
- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
baby slaughterhouse-five dull
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
cities light cheerful
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
thinking make-you-think drug
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
doctors want barns
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
eight tools purpose
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
black slave property
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
two political television
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
brain looks stories
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
dream painter knows
I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.
people american-universities university
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
juicy teeth pears
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
miracle crowds looks
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.