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
meaning-of-life purpose
We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.
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.
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.
love beautiful book
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
writing people stories
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
people firsts bigs
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
men checkerboard bokonon
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
breakfast-of-champions bigs shows
The big show is inside my head,
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
father son someday
Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
life love-is thinking
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
love stuck
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
war television world
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
people rich poor
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.