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
america library desks
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
littles jazz opinion
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
writing alive sacred
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
character want hocus-pocus
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
media white america
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
art forgiving sides
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
believe healing way
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
years eight scientist
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
book reading wonderful
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
writing thinking wells
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
humanity being-human humans
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
being-yourself unique editors
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.
waste terrible
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
good-food
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.