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„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.
"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

„Ich dachte, Wissenschaftler würden genau herausfinden, wie alles funktioniert, und es dann besser machen.“

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„Was ist Zeit? Es ist eine Schlange, die ihren Schwanz frisst.“

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Kurt Vonnegut: Zitate auf Englisch

“We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

Paragraph 1 (p. 7 of Welcome to the Monkey House)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), "Harrison Bergeron" (1961)

“"I can't help it," I said. "My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
"You and your what?" he said.
"My soul and my meat," I said.
"They're separate?" he said.
"I sure hope they are," I said. I laughed. "I would hate to be responsible for what my meat does."”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Bluebeard

Quelle: Bluebeard (1987), p. 246

“And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is. So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Palm Sunday

"Self-Interview", originally appeared in The Paris Review no. 69 (1977)
Palm Sunday (1981)

“No grown woman is a fan of premature ejaculation.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Mildred"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Palm Sunday

"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)

“Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Trout trudged onward, a stranger in a strange land. His pilgrimage was rewarded with new wisdom, which would never have been his had he remained in his basement in Cohoes. He learned the answer to a question many human beings were asking themselves so frantically: "What's blocking the traffic on the westbound barrel of the Midland City stretch of the Interstate?"”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“Peculiar Travel Suggestions are Dancing Lessons From God”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle (1963)

“It may surprise you to learn that I take a certain pride, no matter how foolishly mistaken that pride may be, in making my own decisions for my own reasons.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 285)

“And the city was lovely, highly ornamented, like Paris, and untouched by war. It was supposedly an “open” city, not to be attacked since there were no troop concentrations or war industries there. But high explosives were dropped on Dresden by American and British planes on the night of February 13, 1945, just about twenty-one years ago, as I now write. There were no particular targets for the bombs. The hope was that they would create a lot of kindling and drive firemen underground. And then tens of thousands of tiny incendiaries were scattered over the kindling, like seeds on freshly turned loam. More bombs were dropped to keep firemen in their holes, and all the little fires grew, joined one another, became one apocalyptic flame. Hey presto: fire storm. It was the largest massacre in European history, by the way. … Everything was gone but the cellars where 135,000 Hansels and Gretels had been baked like gingerbread men.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Mother Night

Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)

“Which brings us to the arts, whose purpose, in common with astrology, is to use frauds in order to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on inside. And on and on.”

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Bennington College address (1970)

“He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man’s billfold.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 22)

“Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves—that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune’s cruelest agents as well.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 6 “A Deserter in Time of War” (p. 162)

“I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.”

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Interview Public Radio International (October 2006)
Various interviews

“It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 4 (p. 41)

“All people are insane," he said. "They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

“If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

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"Science Fiction"; originally published in The New York Times Book Review, 5 September 1965
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“To be
the eyes
and ears
and conscience
of the Creator of the Universe,
you fool.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Kilgore Trout's unwritten reply to the question "What is the purpose of life?"
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.”

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As quoted in The Observer [London] (27 December 1987)
Various interviews

“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”

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On humans, interviewed by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005)
Various interviews