Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 11)

Kurt Vonnegut był amerykański pisarz i publicysta. Cytaty po angielsku.
Kurt Vonnegut: 415   Cytatów 4   Polubienia

“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

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Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“Requiem:The crucified planet Earth,
should it find a voice
and a sense of irony,
might now well say
of our abuse of it,
"Forgive them, Father,
They know not what they do."The irony would be
that we know what
we are doing.When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

““Thank God!” said Unk.
Redwine raised his eyebrows quizzically. “Why?” he said.
“Pardon me?” said Unk.
“Why thank God?” said Redwine. “He doesn’t care what happens to you. He didn’t go to any trouble to get you here safe and sound, any more than He would go to the trouble to kill you.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 226)

“Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.”

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Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Trzęsienie czasu

Kilgore's Creed
Timequake (1997)

“Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.”

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Kurt Vonnegut

As quoted in "The World according to Kurt" http://web.archive.org/web/20051018012956/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051011.wxvonnegut11/BNStory/Entertainment/ in Globe and Mail [Toronto] (11 October 2005)
Various interviews

“Nothing in this book is true.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Kocia kołyska

Cat's Cradle (1963)

““This husband of yours, he’d rather have his wife a— Rather, have her—” Halyard cleared his throat— “than go into public relations?”
“I’m proud to say,” said the girl, “that he’s one of the few men on earth with a little self-respect left.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 24 (p. 234)

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 301)

“You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Deadeye Dick

Źródło: Deadeye Dick (1982), p. 6

“Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Mother Night (1961)

“As far as I’m concerned,” said Constant, “the Universe is a junk yard, with everything in it overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain,” said Constant, “has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 290)

“Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.”

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Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 22 (p. 219)

“What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

Martian Visitor
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Chapter 1 Page 4 http://miltonthed.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/vonnegut_kurt_-_god_bless_you_mr_rosewater.pdf
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)