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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What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
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My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
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Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
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A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
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That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
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I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.
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Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am.
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I want to congratulate librarians,...who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed
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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.