Kurt Vonnegut Zitate

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Armin Wertz: Meister der geheimen Kriege, 22. März 2017 heise.de https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Meister-der-geheimen-Kriege-3650452.html.
"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." - „I Love You, Madame Librarian“. 6. August 2004 inthesetimes.com http://inthesetimes.com/article/903/i_love_you_madame_librarian

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 6 (pp. 66-67)

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
Various interviews

"Knowing What's Nice", an essay from In These Times (2003)
Various interviews

Fates Worse than Death (1991)

Mother Night (1961)

Hocus Pocus (1990)

Quelle: Bluebeard (1987), p. 188

"Preface"
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

A Man Without a Country (2005)

Recurring statement throughout the novel on the subject of life, death and mortal existence.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Slapstick (1976)

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 91)

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

Last line
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 180)

Slapstick (1976)

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

"Col. Looseleaf Harper"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

On difficulties with women, as quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84" by Dinitia Smith in The New York Times (11 April 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html
Various interviews

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 215; epigram)

As quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut's 'Stardust Memory'" http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1326 by Harvey Wasserman in The Free Press (4 March 2006); in actuality, Hitler also wasn't elected by a clear majority vote. Although the Nazi Party was elected to the largest number of seats in the Reichstag, it did not have a majority, and could only form a government through a coalition. Eventually, Hitler was appointed as Chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg, and used that position as leverage to gain dictatorial powers.
Various interviews

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Quelle: Bluebeard (1987), p. 91, referring to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 23 (p. 227)