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
years making-love world
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5 slaughter-house-five
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.
may events explaining
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
strong soul disease
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
community soul library
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
mother world illness
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
society bears novelists
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
jobs fear government
Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.
class white people
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
order important messages
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
thinking roman-numerals numbers
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
fighting division bayonets
The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
new-friends lonesome cant-change
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.
looks sometimes wonder
Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.