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Kurt Vonnegut

American Author

Born: Nov 11, 1922

Died: Apr 11, 2007

About Me People Science Think You

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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time. Kurt Vonnegut

Time You Slightly Somehow Writer Feel How Get Marginal

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. Kurt Vonnegut

First Nothing Though Crooked More Clause Lawyers Attack Never First Amendment Lease Were Than Amendment Anywhere Shortage Eager

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. Kurt Vonnegut

Work Day Morning Better Achieve Ought Nine Would More Results No-One Studied Hours Well Metabolism Up Five Than Get Six Human Eight Businessmen Works Twelve Evening Four

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

Ours Wreck Gives Wonder Poor Us Planet Really Right

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. Kurt Vonnegut

Time Science Light Space Beginning Nothing Once Telescope Out Absence Perfect Could Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Know Hubble Very Did Sent Really Thereof Even Capture Now

Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. Kurt Vonnegut

Love People Wife Back Those Had Look She Course Because Been Lot Did Human Where Homes Her

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. Kurt Vonnegut

Love People World Will Enough Everybody Look Just

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. Kurt Vonnegut

Good Me Writing Power Own Tell Kindly Physical Physical Sciences My Own Rather Writer Studied Wrote Read Sciences How Very Than Order Either Really English Lucky Professor Awful Amusement

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. Kurt Vonnegut

Time Man Will Long Say Out Call How Any

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. Kurt Vonnegut

Good People Too Bad Lies Bad Ones Many Need

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. Kurt Vonnegut

God Man Nothing Luck Please Puny Almighty Hand God Almighty Help

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it. Kurt Vonnegut

Living Make Am Being Clumsy Now

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut

Generation Will Think One Or Two Seeming Only Write Come Perhaps Go Families America Novelists Novels Now Belong Last Two

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. Kurt Vonnegut

Love Science Hate Given Superstition Could Never Which Us Humanist

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. Kurt Vonnegut

Life Example Feeling Soldier Compose About He Said His Beethoven Very Done Going Anyway Fifth Much Really

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. Kurt Vonnegut

Late Concern Springtime May Afternoon Whom

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. Kurt Vonnegut

Life Women Men Men And Women Meaning Of Life Everyone Easy Find Easy Access Puzzle Himself Knows Within Boxes Access Always How Than Did Them Century Mankind Meaning Meaning Of Less Lucky Now

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. Kurt Vonnegut

Teacher Gratitude Chemistry Thinking Winding Brought Major Scientific Always Been Up Very Departments Literature Little English

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 taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. Kurt Vonnegut

Funny People Try Think Ghastly Embarrassed Has-Been Distressed Been Offend Taste Done Being Being Funny Them Much Really Many

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is. Kurt Vonnegut

You People Somewhere Beginning Tell One Of The Things Scene Writers Put Most Mostly Readers Sure Because Always Human Human Beings Interested Them Landscape Figure Beings Describe Why Things

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