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
astrology hands people
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
lonely loneliness being-alone
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
dream jobs fate
Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.
tattoo beautiful hurt
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
jobs work men
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
life nice numbness
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
blessing literature
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
writing editors rejection
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
nature thinking people
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
science mystery wonder
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
insightful victim series
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
practice astonishment disorder
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment
memorable persons
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
inspirational education teenager
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.