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
people trying world
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
crazy years three
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
stupid men lovely
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
writing eye purpose
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
people alive saint
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.
years making-love world
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5 slaughter-house-five
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.
community soul library
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
mother world illness
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
society bears novelists
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
jobs fear government
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
class white people
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
order important messages
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
thinking roman-numerals numbers
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.