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
pain hate real
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.
magic
Science is magic that works.
funny smile laughter
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
hipster religion literature
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
writing college creative
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
want kind standing-on-the-edge
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
school want socialism
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
summer baby hipster
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.
nuts president done
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
art way breakfast-of-champions
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
healing slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
life happiness wisdom
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
thinking people body
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
funny running country
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.