Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku

Kurt Vonnegut był amerykański pisarz i publicysta. Cytaty po angielsku.
Kurt Vonnegut: 415 cytatów4 Polubienia

“The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 19 (p. 188)

“When Paul thought about his effortless rise in the hierarchy, he sometimes, as now, felt sheepish, like a charlatan. He could handle his assignments all right, but he didn’t have what his father had, what Kroner had, what Shepherd had, what so many had: the sense of spiritual importance in what they were doing; the ability to be moved emotionally, almost like a lover, by the great omnipresent and omniscient spook, the corporate personality. In short, what Paul missed was what made his father aggressive and great: the capacity to really give a damn.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 6 (pp. 66-67)

“Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“In case you haven’t noticed, we … dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything. Piece of cake.”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.”

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Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
Various interviews

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."”

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"Knowing What's Nice", an essay from In These Times (2003)
Various interviews

“If flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall? Here is this old poop's suggestion: WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD…AND TOO DAMNED CHEAP.”

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Fates Worse than Death (1991)

“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Mother Night (1961)

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“What is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called "thought."”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Bluebeard

Źródło: Bluebeard (1987), p. 188

“I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. … The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusions. It makes them impossible. It's a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.”

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"Preface"
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)

“We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“So it goes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Rzeźnia numer pięć

Recurring statement throughout the novel on the subject of life, death and mortal existence.
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“If you can do no good, at least do no harm.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Slapstick, czyli nigdy więcej samotności!

Slapstick (1976)

“You know, in a way I wish I hadn’t met you two. It’s much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 91)

“I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen! Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigars, however, are good for you … Firearms are also good for you … Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

““The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,” she said, “would be to not be used for anything by anybody.”… “Thank you for using me,” she said to Constant, “even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.””

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (pp. 310-311)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

“Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!"”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Last line
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“The name of the new religion,” said Rumfoord, “is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
“The flag of that church will be blue and gold,” said Rumfoord. “These words will be written on that flag in gold letters on a blue field: Take Care of the People, and God Almighty Will Take Care of Himself.
“The two chief teachings of this religion are these,” said Rumfoord: “Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 180)

“Prologue, and a recurring phrase throughout the book.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Slapstick, czyli nigdy więcej samotności!

Slapstick (1976)