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
reading civilization astrology
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
drinking
We are what we pretend to be.
science awful situation
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
ideas evil world
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
memorable thinking mind
I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
pain struggle thinking
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'
love inspirational broken-heart
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
life love-is
Love is where you find it.
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.
war government drug
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
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.
reading here-i-am headlines
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
imagination awful machinery
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
has-beens
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.