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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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„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

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 242)

“He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 2 “Cheers in the Wirehouse” (p. 45; epigram)

““Look,” said Rumfoord, “life for a punctual person is like a roller coaster.” He turned to shiver his hands in her face. “All kinds of things are going to happen to you! Sure,” he said, “I can see the whole roller coaster you’re on. And sure—I could give you a piece of paper that would tell you about every dip and turn, warn you about every bogeyman that was going to pop out at you in the tunnels. But that wouldn’t help you any.”
“I don’t see why not,” said Beatrice.
“Because you’d still have to take the roller-coaster ride,” said Rumfoord. “I didn’t design the roller coaster, I don’t own it, and I don’t say who rides and who doesn’t. I just know what it’s shaped like.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 2 “Cheers in the Wirehouse” (pp. 57-58)

“Doctor Paul Proteus, son of a successful man, himself rich with prospects of being richer, counted his material blessings. He found that he was in excellent shape to afford integrity.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 13 (p. 132)

“If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking out of snowbanks, warming myself with my secretly virtuous insides. So it goes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Mother Night

Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)

“I asked Rob Roy where he had gone to college.
"Yale," he said.
I told him what Helen Dole said about Yale, that it ought to be called "Plantation Owners' Tech."
"I don't get it," he said.
"I had to ask her to explain it myself," I said. "She said Yale was where plantation owners learned how to get the natives to kill each other instead of them."”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“This silly playlet seemed to satisfy them completely as a picture of what they were doing, why they were doing it, and who was against them, and why some people were against them. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Player Piano

Quelle: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 21 (p. 212)

“The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

Interviewed by J. Rentilly, &quot;The Best Jokes Are Dangerous&quot; http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/09/16vonnegut1.html, McSweeny&#x27;s (September 2002) <br class="br">Various interviews

“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“Son—they say there isn’t any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 65; epigram)

“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Slapstick

Prologue
Slapstick (1976)

“Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

On Charley Warmergran, the Fire Chief of Rosewater.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“You couldn't help that you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Jailbird

Jailbird (1979)

“Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting. They think that the whole country is sick of it, and they could be right. It isn't the gold standard that they want to put us back on. They want something even more basic. They want to put us back on the snake-oil standard.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 127)

“Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“[Freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)
Kontext: Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

“They're playin our song Gene!”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”

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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. 253)

“When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform — uncontrollable fear.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Harold Ryan"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“I was lucky enough on this trip to interview none other than the late Adolf Hitler. I was gratified to learn that he now feels remorse for any actions of his, however indirectly, which might have had anything to do with the violent deaths suffered by thirty-five million people during World War II. He and his mistress Eva Braun, of course were among those casualties, along with four million other Germans, six million Jews, eighteen million citizens of the Soviet Union and so on.
“I paid my dues with everyone else,” he said.
It is his hope that a modest monument, possibly a stone cross, since he was a Christian, will be erected somewhere in his memory, possibly on the grounds of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It should be incised, he said, with his name and dates 1889-1945. Underneath should be a two-word sentence in German: “Entschuldigen Sie.”
Roughly translated into English, this comes out, “I beg your pardon,” or “Excuse Me.””

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle (1963)

“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch Deadeye Dick

Statement of the husband of the woman killed in the accident
Deadeye Dick (1982)

“He held up his watch to sunlight, letting it drink in the wherewithal that was to solar watches what money was to Earth men.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch The Sirens of Titan

Quelle: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 17)

“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”

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Kurt Vonnegut buch God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

"Preface"
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

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