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
be-good gods-will fooled
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
children way adults
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
people slaughterhouse-five looks
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
hurt art writing
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.
hate men evil
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,
plato liars way
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.
country war book
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.
enthusiasm experiments
We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
ignorance complicated futility
The complicated futility of ignorance.
ocean cried
It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.
baby stars two
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.
slaughterhouse-five love-one-another slaughterhouse-5
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
slaughterhouse-five awful might
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
writing thinking people
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?