Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku

Kurt Vonnegut był amerykański pisarz i publicysta. Cytaty po angielsku.

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“The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.”

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Preface
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Introduction (1966)
Sometimes misquoted as: Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Mother Night (1961)

“Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Ta ta and adios. Or, as Saint Peter said to me with a sly wink, when I told him I was on my last-round trip to Paradise: “See you later, Alligator.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, "Here's a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about."
And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it — have slaves fight each other to death in the Colosseum, or burn people alive in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in industrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Galapagos

Galápagos (1985)

“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me!”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Mother Night (1961)

“As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Bagombo Snuff Box

Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)

“It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 2 “Cheers in the Wirehouse” (p. 52)

“If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules—and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Opening epigram
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

“She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.”

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“That was the strength of the Nazis," she said. "They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Jailbird

Jailbird (1979)

“While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one slider said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, “I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it.
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy — because we’re experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that’s what’s going on now.”

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Interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005) <br class="br">Various interviews

“Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 1 (p. 25)

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Rzeźnia numer pięć

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Concerning Eliot Rosewater.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“What does “A. D.” signify? That commemorates an inmate of this lunatic asylum we call Earth who was nailed to a wooden cross by a bunch of other inmates. With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood. Then they set the cross upright, so he dangled up there where even the shortest person in the crowd could see him writhing this way and that. Can you imagine people doing such a thing to a person?”

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Cold Turkey (2004)