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
nice glasses champagne
It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
editors giving hell
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
queens nice sleep
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!
believe sea pirate
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
basketball girl crazy
But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.
firsts answers make-sense
That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
teaching democracy may
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.
forgiveness revenge eye
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
self fool interfere
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
tired exercise yale
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
habitat visitors
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.
positive-thinking anxiety bitterness
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
father voice trout
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!
war attractive-things littles
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.