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
art bird coal
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
brother stars war
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.
mistake evolution planets
Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
school people luck
The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
illustration important pieces
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.
angel names routine
As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
people good-work envious
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
forgiveness ideas two
Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
war ignorance environmental
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
father doubt castles
My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’
collars celluloid solar-system
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
dog brother war
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.
looks mud lucky
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
book
Never index your own book.