Kurt Vonnegut
| Born | 1922-11-11 |
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| Died | 2007-04-11 |
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Items (19)
- 2003 Tock Tick (Single)
- 1999 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian 8.0
- 1997 Timequake 8.0
- 1990 Hocus Pocus
- 1987 Bluebeard
- 1985 Galapagos 5.0
- 1982 Deadeye Dick 7.5
- 1979 Jailbird
- 1976 Slapstick
- 1974 Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- 1973 Breakfast of Champions 8.0
- 1970 Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- 1969 Slaughterhouse Five 10.0
- 1968 Welcome to the Monkey House
- 1965 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or Pearls Before Swine
- 1963 Cat's Cradle
- 1961 Mother Night
- 1959 The Sirens of Titan
- 1952 Player Piano
Quotes (14)
"His big brain wanted the respect of his soul as much as he wanted the
respect of his passengers. His brain had a life of its own, and the time
would come when he would actually try to fire it for having misled him."
"How nice- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
"We are what we pretend to be."
"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
"Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies."
"There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time."
"Men are jerks. Women are psychotic."
"Freethinker: a skeptic about conventional religious beliefs."
"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have enough nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."
"If your brains were dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."
"No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous."
"Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife."
"Even with military training, there is no way a man can accidentally blow his head off with a shotgun."
"Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful."