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
long-ago ideas sorrow
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.
mean feel-better feels
Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.
epidemics remedy
That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.
i-can
I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.
heart my-heart said
As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said.
You have to go, but I have to stay.
book people might
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
order world requirements
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
dark light sunglasses
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.
country past television
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
country jesus years
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
war people stories
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. 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.
book mosaics grownups
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
cutting giving lessons
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.