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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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
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The arts are not a way to make a living,
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You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
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Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
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The big show is inside my head,
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.
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THE WINNERS ARE AT WAR WITH THE LOSERS, AND THE FIX IS ON. THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE ARE AWFUL.