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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 11. November 1922 – 11. April 2007  •  Andere Namen Vonegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Kurt Vonnegut Berühmte Zitate

„Bombardiert zu werden ist eine außerordentlich passive Angelegenheit. Es gibt nichts, was man tun kann – außer vielleicht zu den Bomben zu sprechen. Man hat als Überlebender auch nichts, worauf man stolz sein könnte.“

Kurt Vonnegut

in einem Gespräch mit Volker Hage, welt.de http://www.welt.de/kultur/article805230/Schriftsteller_Kurt_Vonnegut_stirbt_nach_Sturz.html, 12. April 2007

„Darum hat Kurt Vonnegut einmal gefragt: "Was ist das für eine Presse, die wir heute haben, wenn man Bücher lesen muss, um zu wissen, was in der Welt passiert?"“

Kurt Vonnegut

Armin Wertz: Meister der geheimen Kriege, 22. März 2017 heise.de https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Meister-der-geheimen-Kriege-3650452.html. <br class="br">&quot;And still on the subject of books: Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on. I will cite an example: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, published near the start of this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year.&quot; - „I Love You, Madame Librarian“. 6. August 2004 inthesetimes.com http://inthesetimes.com/article/903/i_love_you_madame_librarian

Kurt Vonnegut: Zitate auf Englisch

“During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,” he said, “I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 181)

“Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,
Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.
His body, empty, prowls the earth,
Earning what a body’s worth.
If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

““Why are you quitting?”
“Sick of my job.”
“Because what you were doing was morally bad?” suggested the voice.
“Because it wasn’t getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere.”
“Because it was evil?” insisted the voice.
“Because it was pointless.””

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 29 (p. 271)

““I liked him very much,” said Constant.
“The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,” said Beatrice.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 41)

“Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction — in the direction of smaller brains.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Galápagos

Galápagos (1985)

“We don't piss in your ashtrays,
So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Eliot Rosewater's favorite poem, from the wall of the men's room at the Log Cabin Inn.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“How embarrassing to be human.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

““The hell with the human race!” said Beatrice.
“You’re a member of it, you know,” said Rumfoord.
“Then I’d like to put in for a transfer to the chimpanzees!” said Beatrice. “No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.””

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 2 “Cheers in the Wirehouse” (p. 52)

“These displaced people need something, and the clergy can’t give it to them—or it’s impossible for them to take what the clergy offers. The clergy says it’s enough, and so does the Bible. The people say it isn’t enough, and I suspect they’re right.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 92)

“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”

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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2013)

“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Cat's Cradle

Chapter 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=61W3aGvTVgIC&amp;q=%22Beware+of+the+man+who+works+hard+to+learn+something+learns+it+and+finds+himself+no+wiser+than+before%22&amp;pg=PA281#v=onepage: Frank&#x27;s Ant Farm <br class="br">Cat&#x27;s Cradle (1963)

“Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“[Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. [Iraq] is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“I tell you, Mr. Constant,” he said genially, “it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 25)

“My father said "When in doubt, castle."”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.”

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Public conversation with Lee Stringer, in Like Shaking Hands With God (1999)
Various interviews

“Many people found our house spooky, and the attic in fact as full of evil when I was born. It housed a collection of more than three hundred antique and modern firearms. Father had bought them during his and Mother's six-month honeymoon in Europe in 1922. Father thought them beautiful, but they might as well have been copperheads and rattlesnakes. They were murder.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Deadeye Dick

Deadeye Dick (1982)

“His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 7)

“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

page 19
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 11 “We Hate Malachi Constant Because...” (p. 259)

“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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"In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself"
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“About astrology and palmistry: They are good because they make people feel 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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Bennington College address (1970)

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Opening line of novel.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“Listen:
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

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