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Kurt Vonnegut

(1922–2007) Writer United States

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Kurt Vonnegut was a Writer from the United States, best known for Slaughterhouse-Five.

Quick Facts About Kurt Vonnegut

Born: November 11, 1922
Died: April 11, 2007
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions
Known for: Satirical and darkly humorous novels
Spouse: Jill Krementz

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was an American author whose reputation rests on novels blending satire with dark humor. Across a writing life of five decades he published fourteen novels, five plays, three collections of short stories, and five works of nonfiction, with additional material appearing after his death.

His best-remembered books include Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. Vonnegut collected ten honors over his career, among them the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Purple Heart, and induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Purple Heart National Book Award Guggenheim Fellowship Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Mondello Prize Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame Humanist of the Year Carl Sandburg Literary Award

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Eugene V. Debs Award Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut · Page 10

“You were just babies then!", she said. "What?" I said. "You were just babies in the war - like the ones upstairs!"…

Old men

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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Capital punishment

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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face…

Addict

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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly…

Being funny

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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Beauty

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The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

Music

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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Differences

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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Believe

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“You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama…

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“I am embarrassed. We are all embarrassed. We Americans have guided our destinies so clumsily, with all the world watching, that we…

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“Oh," said Castle. "Him." He shrugged. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so…

Vonnegut

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“Now, you can say that your Daddy is right and the other little child’s Daddy is wrong, but the Universe is an…

Children

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It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally.…

Ammunition

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People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I…

Argument

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“And where there's life - There is life.”

Life

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The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

America

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“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed…

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“And the peanut butter-eaters on Earth were preparing to conquer the shazzbutter-eaters on the planet in the book by Kilgore Trout. By…

Books

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“Don't truth me, [...] and I won't truth you.”

Truth

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“The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and…

Books

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“Americans have finally heard about Dresden,” said Rumfoord, twenty-three years after the raid.”

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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Conservation

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I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

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“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at…

Writing

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Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He…

Behavior

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Kurt Vonnegut by topic

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