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
wall prayer past
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
get-well recovery sick
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
ends alright ifs
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
book thoughtful past
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.
artist people function
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
cheerful reason yacht
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.
dies
Until you die .. it's all life.
choke coughing response
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.
mean writing math
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
thinking wake-up idiot
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
real opera hopeless
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
real crazy believe
You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
ignorance library foyers
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.