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
love inspirational broken-heart
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
years iraq giving
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.
life love-is
Love is where you find it.
people american-universities university
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.