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
running thinking cities
The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.
memories mud
What memories for mud to have.
love real love-is
... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
life definitions stills
... life, by definition, is never still.
spiritual term inconsistency
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
sweet humanity planets
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
hurt mean thinking
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.
history
History! Read it and weep!
clever people world
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
dream thinking grandchildren
The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
writing people decline
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
writing brain way
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
dream grandchildren people
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
writing wonder wells
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.