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
ideas slaughterhouse-five earth
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.
new-beginnings earth breakfast-of-champions
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
earth breakfast-of-champions planets
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
giving earth-day environmental
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
nature earth environment
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
created demons doubted earth god grim human mark mind mine morning mysterious planet proves satan title twain war wrote
I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and ""the damned human race."" If you doubt that, read your morning paper. Never mind what paper. Never mind the date.
earth fart
We're here on Earth to fart around
scum-of-the-earth may emergencies
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
iron-will earth trout
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
ideas cuckoos earth
There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.
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I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
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What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
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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.