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
scientist hiroshima
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.
guy matter player-piano
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
veterans-day sacred breakfast-of-champions
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
boys years long
I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
thinking names parent
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.
inspirational art practice
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
years slaughterhouse-five world
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
girl nice party
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
meaningful artist pretending
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
firsts born
I never asked to be born in the first place.
long rooms new-life
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.
believe heart men
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
baby reading grandchildren
And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.
sex order america
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.