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
ends alright ifs
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
get-well recovery sick
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
wall prayer past
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
intelligent bird slaughterhouse-five
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
mind matter breakfast-of-champions
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
exercise laughing jogging
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
life sex-and-love making-love
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
jesus matter said
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
philosophy space three
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
science sea space
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
animal way life-is
Life is no way to treat an animal.
nice lying world
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
punishment might rewards
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.
mother giving ungrateful
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.