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
nazi made understood
That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.
thinking two three
You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.
military war men
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
slaughterhouse-five chaos slaughterhouse-5
All this happened, more or less.
life-changing slaughterhouse-five trying
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
mistake thinking alive
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
war gun pigs
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
voice people would-be
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.
maturity knowing way
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
thinking
I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
writing character glasses
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
writing pneumonia making-love
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
dark age want
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.
way use stranger
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.