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
two political television
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
war government drug
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
apathy enough said
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.
reading here-i-am headlines
You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.
black slave property
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.
eight tools purpose
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
doctors want barns
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
imagination awful machinery
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
thinking make-you-think drug
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
has-beens
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
cities light cheerful
The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.
baby slaughterhouse-five dull
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
home people wife
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 into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
bridges owl stories
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.