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
writing depressive
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
modern-life may chiefs
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
new-york cities tunnels
I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.
war men voice
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
beautiful ambition mind
Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?
book slaughterhouse-five billy-pilgrim
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
ideas healthy humane
A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.
hate book ideas
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases...
people tomorrow ifs
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
writing dancer competition
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....
crowning-glory please optimistic-life
I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
people want said
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
information matter add
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.
ocean swimming america
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.