Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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“During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, “fit to split the ears of groundlings.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

He asked if it had a name, and I said “Indianapolis.”
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple bypass. I had listened to several people on TV talk shows who had gone down the blue tunnel to the Pearly Gates, and even beyond the Pearly Gates, or so they said, and then come back to life again. But I certainly wouldn't have set out on such a risky expedition on purpose, without first having survived one …
To go through the Pearly Gates, no matter how tempting the interviewee on the other side, as I myself discovered the hard way, is to run the risk that crotchety Saint Peter, depending on his mood, may never let you out again. Think of how heartbroken your friends and relatives would be if, by going through the Pearly Gates to talk to Napoleon, say, you in effect committed suicide.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

““You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo.
“Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 313)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”

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As quoted in "Vonnegut's Blues For America" Sunday Herald (7 January 2006)
Various interviews

“George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. … Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual … but everything is sexual … but alcohol.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Mildred"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“So let’s give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That’ll teach bin Laden a lesson he won’t soon forget.”

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Cold Turkey (2004)

“1. Find a subject you care about.
2. Do not ramble, though.
3. Keep it simple.
4. Have the guts to cut.
5. Sound like yourself.
6. Say what you mean to say.
7. Pity the readers.”

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As quoted in Science Fictionisms (1995), compiled by William Rotsler
Various interviews

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone."”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Trzęsienie czasu

Timequake (1997)

“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 165; epigram)

“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency."”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Slapstick, czyli nigdy więcej samotności!

Prologue
Slapstick (1976)

“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles away from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago. He died last night. So it goes.
Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes.
And everyday my government gives me a count of corpses created by the military service in Vietnam. So it goes.
My father died many years ago now — of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Rzeźnia numer pięć

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A close paraphrase of this (beginning "Do not use...") is repeated in a commencement address at Cloves Hall, 27 April 2007, as reprinted in Armageddon in Retrospect
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“We've sure come a long way since then. Sometimes I wish we hadn't. I hate H-bombs and the Jerry Springer show.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“The controls were anything but a hunch-player’s delight in a Universe composed of one-trillionth part matter to one decillion parts black velvet futility.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 303)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)