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
war eye boys
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
power thinking brain
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
love-you kids parent
Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
summer spring sleep
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
beer people hocus-pocus
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
war believe glaciers
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
atheist alive today
If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
wise men thinking
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
laughter air cities
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.
home fire cities
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. 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 to a pillar of salt.
heart world pay
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
world aspirin this-world
Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.
way awful protect
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
form cradle treason
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.