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
mistake writing moon
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
mother giving ungrateful
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
punishment might rewards
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.
nice lying world
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
animal way life-is
Life is no way to treat an animal.
science sea space
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
philosophy space three
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
bugs amber moments
There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.
bullying reality views
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.
jesus matter said
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
life sex-and-love making-love
Make love when you can. It's good for you.
believe imagination way
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.
exercise laughing jogging
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
mind matter breakfast-of-champions
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.