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
writing two people
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.
thinking people slaughterhouse-five
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.
people wealth problem
Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
people
Take life seriously but none of the people in it.
people awful rooms
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
prayer people would-be
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
people insane looks
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
girl race people
Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.
hate if-there-is-a-god people
if there is a god, he sure hates people
people rich poor
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.
people firsts bigs
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
writing people stories
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
beer people hocus-pocus
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
writing people thank-god
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.