Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and he was the author of many other novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House (1968); a collection of short stories, Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapogos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has published a volume autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991).
Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
“Goodbye blue Monday.”
“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.”