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
humanity being-human humans
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
being-yourself unique editors
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.
waste terrible
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
good-food
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
wall people flying
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.
watches innocent wisps
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
music musician knows
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
character water modern-life
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
earth breakfast-of-champions planets
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
thinking people survival
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
couple years wife
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
father self worry
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
writing stories done
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
brain instigators made
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.