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
ignorance library foyers
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.
eye people ears
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
teenage talking vanity
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
daughter children ignorance
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.
feelings wickedness adultery
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
montana naked knows
Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.
self answers taught
Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer.
reality yale tv-shows
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".
ideas apples giving
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
beautiful silly walk-with-me
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
trying littles god-life
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
simple thinking way
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.
art hands elephants
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.