in einem Gespräch mit Volker Hage, welt.de http://www.welt.de/kultur/article805230/Schriftsteller_Kurt_Vonnegut_stirbt_nach_Sturz.html, 12. April 2007
Kurt Vonnegut Berühmte Zitate
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">"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
Kurt Vonnegut: Zitate auf Englisch
Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano
Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 19 (p. 188)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano
Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 6 (pp. 66-67)
“Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.”
Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.”
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)
"Preface"
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Slaughterhouse-Five
Recurring statement throughout the novel on the subject of life, death and mortal existence.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano
Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 91)
Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions
Last line
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan
Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 180)
“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.”
Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June
"Col. Looseleaf Harper"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
“My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.”
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 <br class="br">Various interviews
Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan
Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 215; epigram)
“The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”
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. <br class="br">Various interviews
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Bluebeard
Quelle: Bluebeard (1987), p. 91, referring to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan
Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)
Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano
Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 23 (p. 227)
