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
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.
appreciation art children
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.
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.
scum-of-the-earth may emergencies
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
twenties hiroshima scientific-truth
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
men hands luck
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
husband father war
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.
memorable intelligent thinking
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
want breakfast-of-champions charm
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
beautiful water i-am-beautiful
In the water I am beautiful.
loneliness men thinking
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.