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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The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
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I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
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That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
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Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
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It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.
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You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed
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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
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I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard,
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
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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 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.