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
food fabulous kind
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
past slaughterhouse-five billy-pilgrim
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
new-york parks national-parks
...Skyscraper National Park
years equal
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
freedom writing perfect
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
nature earth environment
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
real party sunset
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
writing should-have giving
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
forever searching-for-love form
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
civilization ideas might
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
writing ideas scratches
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
giving people united-states
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
littles news truth-is
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
life would-be
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.