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
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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I suggest that you work for a socialist form of government. Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on the people nobody likes. They just can't cut the mustard under Free Enterprise. They lack that certain something that Nelson Rockefeller, for instance, so abundantly has.
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am.
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the ideas in the piece seemed to make such great sense.
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A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes
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and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.
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I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.