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
men thinking giving
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
men thinking democracy
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.
men jerk psychotic
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
men knowing cradle
man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
memories men feelings
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
stupid men lovely
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
war men voice
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
men lines used
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.
men mad people
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.
believe heart men
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
hate men evil
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,
inspirational men might
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
children military men
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.
men thinking sacred
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed