Alter | 84 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 11. November 1922 |
Geburtsort | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Todesdatum | Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 |
Todesort | New York City |
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Beschreibung | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (11. November 1922 - 11. April 2007) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der für seine satirischen und schwarzhumorigen Romane bekannt ist. In seiner über 50 Jahre dauernden Karriere veröffentlichte er vierzehn Romane, drei Kurzgeschichtensammlungen, fünf Theaterstücke und fünf Sachbücher; weitere Sammlungen wurden nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht. |
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. 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 do not care about them. You are not alone.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
