Kurt Vonnegut: Cytaty po angielsku

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

“Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Trout trudged onward, a stranger in a strange land. His pilgrimage was rewarded with new wisdom, which would never have been his had he remained in his basement in Cohoes. He learned the answer to a question many human beings were asking themselves so frantically: "What's blocking the traffic on the westbound barrel of the Midland City stretch of the Interstate?"”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“It may surprise you to learn that I take a certain pride, no matter how foolishly mistaken that pride may be, in making my own decisions for my own reasons.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 285)

“And the city was lovely, highly ornamented, like Paris, and untouched by war. It was supposedly an “open” city, not to be attacked since there were no troop concentrations or war industries there. But high explosives were dropped on Dresden by American and British planes on the night of February 13, 1945, just about twenty-one years ago, as I now write. There were no particular targets for the bombs. The hope was that they would create a lot of kindling and drive firemen underground. And then tens of thousands of tiny incendiaries were scattered over the kindling, like seeds on freshly turned loam. More bombs were dropped to keep firemen in their holes, and all the little fires grew, joined one another, became one apocalyptic flame. Hey presto: fire storm. It was the largest massacre in European history, by the way. … Everything was gone but the cellars where 135,000 Hansels and Gretels had been baked like gingerbread men.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)

“Which brings us to the arts, whose purpose, in common with astrology, is to use frauds in order to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on inside. And on and on.”

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Bennington College address (1970)

“He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man’s billfold.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 1 “Between Timid and Timbuktu” (p. 22)

“Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves—that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune’s cruelest agents as well.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Syreny z Tytana

Źródło: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 6 “A Deserter in Time of War” (p. 162)

“I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.”

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Interview Public Radio International (October 2006)
Various interviews

“It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Pianola

Źródło: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 4 (p. 41)

“All people are insane," he said. "They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Matka noc

Mother Night (1961)

“If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled “Science Fiction” … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

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"Science Fiction"; originally published in The New York Times Book Review, 5 September 1965
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“To be
the eyes
and ears
and conscience
of the Creator of the Universe,
you fool.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Śniadanie mistrzów

Kilgore Trout's unwritten reply to the question "What is the purpose of life?"
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.”

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As quoted in The Observer [London] (27 December 1987)
Various interviews

“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990)

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”

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

“It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.”

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Paragraph 78 (p. 13 of Welcome to the Monkey House)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), "Harrison Bergeron" (1961)

“Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.”

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Kurt Vonnegut książka God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)