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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

American writer

Lived from: 1922 - 2007

Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 11 november 1922 Died: 11 april 2007

  • The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
  • Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

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  • About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
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  • And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
    A Man Without a Country
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  • Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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  • Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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  • Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
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  • Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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  • Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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  • I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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  • I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
    Player Piano
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  • I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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  • If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
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  • It was a thunderingly beautiful experience - voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
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  • Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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  • Nothing in this book is true.
    Cat's Cradle (1963)
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  • Science is magic that works.
    Cat's Cradle.
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  • The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
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  • The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
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  • The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
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  • The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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What are the most famous quotes from Kurt Vonnegut?

The two most famous quotes from Kurt Vonnegut are:

  • "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."
  • "And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

When did Kurt Vonnegut live?

Kurt Vonnegut was born in 1922 and died in the year 2007.