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
fall white laughing
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.
art writing order
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
life home men
A man without a home can't be lost.
memorable player government
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
memorable men laughing
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
people rich poor
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.
war television world
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
love stuck
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
life love-is thinking
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
father son someday
Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
bird wish born
I wish we had all been born birds instead.
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
breakfast-of-champions bigs shows
The big show is inside my head,
men checkerboard bokonon
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.