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
home people wife
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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.
has-beens
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
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?
imagination awful machinery
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
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.
apathy enough said
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.
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.
scratches building jokes
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
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.