Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”

Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Kocia kołyska

Chapter 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=61W3aGvTVgIC&q=%22Beware+of+the+man+who+works+hard+to+learn+something+learns+it+and+finds+himself+no+wiser+than+before%22&pg=PA281#v=onepage: Frank's Ant Farm <br class="br">Cat's Cradle (1963)

“Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“[Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. [Iraq] is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“I tell you, Mr. Constant,” he said genially, “it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 25)

“My father said "When in doubt, castle."”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.”

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Public conversation with Lee Stringer, in Like Shaking Hands With God (1999)
Various interviews

“Many people found our house spooky, and the attic in fact as full of evil when I was born. It housed a collection of more than three hundred antique and modern firearms. Father had bought them during his and Mother's six-month honeymoon in Europe in 1922. Father thought them beautiful, but they might as well have been copperheads and rattlesnakes. They were murder.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Deadeye Dick

Deadeye Dick (1982)

“His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 7)

“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

page 19
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 11 “We Hate Malachi Constant Because...” (p. 259)

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”

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"In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself"
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“About astrology and palmistry: They are good because they make people feel vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”

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Bennington College address (1970)

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Mother Night (1961)

“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Opening line of novel.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“Listen:
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Breakfast of Champions (1973)