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
eras century late
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
death ends artificial
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.
laughter tears doe
Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
change rome built
Rome wasn't built in a day.
son thinking people
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.
eye purpose ears
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
beautiful ugly-things people
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
beautiful sometimes breakfast-of-champions
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
artist long poison
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
ideas order enemy
Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.
disappointment writing laughing
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
men knowing cradle
man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
writing opportunity palm-sunday
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
lying people internet
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.