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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There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.
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He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
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There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.
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Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
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The arts are not a way to make a living,
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The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
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Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.