Kurt Vonnegut citations (347 citations, Page 7)

Interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005) <br class="br">Various interviews

“Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Le Pianiste déchaîné

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 1 (p. 25)

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Abattoir 5 ou la Croisade des enfants

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Concerning Eliot Rosewater.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“What does “A. D.” signify? That commemorates an inmate of this lunatic asylum we call Earth who was nailed to a wooden cross by a bunch of other inmates. With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood. Then they set the cross upright, so he dangled up there where even the shortest person in the crowd could see him writhing this way and that. Can you imagine people doing such a thing to a person?”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Le Breakfast du champion

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Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“Requiem:The crucified planet Earth,
should it find a voice
and a sense of irony,
might now well say
of our abuse of it,
"Forgive them, Father,
They know not what they do."The irony would be
that we know what
we are doing.When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

““Thank God!” said Unk.
Redwine raised his eyebrows quizzically. “Why?” he said.
“Pardon me?” said Unk.
“Why thank God?” said Redwine. “He doesn’t care what happens to you. He didn’t go to any trouble to get you here safe and sound, any more than He would go to the trouble to kill you.””

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Kurt Vonnegut livre The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 226)

“Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Le Breakfast du champion

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Timequake

Kilgore's Creed
Timequake (1997)

“Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.”

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As quoted in "The World according to Kurt" http://web.archive.org/web/20051018012956/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051011.wxvonnegut11/BNStory/Entertainment/ in Globe and Mail [Toronto] (11 October 2005) <br class="br">Various interviews

“Nothing in this book is true.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle (1963)

““This husband of yours, he’d rather have his wife a— Rather, have her—” Halyard cleared his throat— “than go into public relations?”
“I’m proud to say,” said the girl, “that he’s one of the few men on earth with a little self-respect left.””

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Kurt Vonnegut livre Le Pianiste déchaîné

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 24 (p. 234)

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livre A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)