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
people community causes
What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.
thinking important persons
I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.
thinking frustration would-be
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
art say-anything social
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
fighting self progress
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
stupid writing simple
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.
scientist hiroshima
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.
guy matter player-piano
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
veterans-day sacred breakfast-of-champions
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
funny mad water
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
boys years long
I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.
thinking names parent
I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.
inspirational art practice
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
years slaughterhouse-five world
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.