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
beautiful looks way
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.
couple stories may
The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.
religious class luxury
The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.
white bird stuff
Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop? Answer: That is bird poop, too.
years stories whole
Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.
You become who you pretend to be.
cost becoming welcome
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
daughter character stories
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.
writing matter way
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns
smart rich ifs
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
tangled people would-be
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.
years tonight hopes-and-fears
The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.
real party two
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
son use firsts
Here is a lesson in writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.