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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Well, to admire the hell out of Jesus Christ or of everyone who speaks well. And, well my grandfather said is-- if-- what Jesus said was marvelous. What does it matter whether he was God or not? And it doesn't matter. So this is a human being who spoke extremely well, and we humanists listened.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.