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
home fire cities
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.
heart world pay
She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.
world aspirin this-world
Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.
way awful protect
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
writing people thank-god
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
country airplane america
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
form cradle treason
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
lying book cradle
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
reading civilization astrology
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
drinking
We are what we pretend to be.
mean other-cultures community
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.
science awful situation
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
religious iowa san-francisco
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.