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
habitat visitors
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
positive-thinking anxiety bitterness
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
father voice trout
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!
war attractive-things littles
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
christian religious mean
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
may failing courtesy
Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.
art literature score
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
writing thinking typewriters
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
baby children war
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
mother dog brother
Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.
children bothered bewildered
I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
thinking humanity humans
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
writing citizenship good-citizenship
I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
unhappy needs
Unhappy failures need not apply.