Kurt Vonnegut citations célèbres
“Tout ce que vous pensez, vous le pensez parce que quelqu'un en a lancé l'idée.”
Le Pianiste déchaîné, 1952
Citations du monde de Kurt Vonnegut
“Certains des gens les plus malheureux en ce monde sont aussi parmi les plus intelligents.”
Le Pianiste déchaîné, 1952
Kurt Vonnegut Citations
“Si les souhaits avaient des jambes, tous les crève-la-faim rouleraient carrosse.”
Le Breakfast du champion, 1974
“Les idées ou l'absence d'idées sont des causes de maladie.”
Le Breakfast du champion, 1974
“Les idées vous viennent toujours quand on veut demander quelque chose.”
Le Breakfast du champion, 1974
“Le sexe a encore le pouvoir d'abattre toutes sortes de structures sociales.”
Le Pianiste déchaîné, 1952
Kurt Vonnegut: Citations en anglais
“Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.”
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)
Recurring statement throughout the novel on the subject of life, death and mortal existence.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 180)
“Prologue, and a recurring phrase throughout the book.”
Slapstick (1976)
“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.”
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
“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
Various interviews
Source: 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.
Various interviews
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)
Source: Bluebeard (1987), p. 91, referring to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)
