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
thinking justice people
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
nature philosophy sleep
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
alive said communicate
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?
thinking animal trying
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
artist appreciate people
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.
funny sarcastic witty
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
school rose sixteen
Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
book eye eight
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
new-beginnings earth breakfast-of-champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
country war taken
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.
book grateful knack
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
war character sick
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
religious luck awful
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
lust rust love-and-lust
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.