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
girl nice party
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
meaningful artist pretending
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
firsts born
I never asked to be born in the first place.
long rooms new-life
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.
believe heart men
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
baby reading grandchildren
And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.
sex order america
And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
be-good gods-will fooled
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
children way adults
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
people slaughterhouse-five looks
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
justice vote economic
There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.
hurt art writing
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.
hate men evil
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,
plato liars way
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.