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Kurt Vonnegut bol americký spisovateľ.

Vonnegut bol autorom kritizujúcim spoločnosť. Ako vojak americkej armády bol svedkom hrôz v druhej svetovej vojne a zo svojich skúseností čerpal pri písaní svojich najznámejších diel Bitúnok č. 5, Matka noc, Raňajky šampiónov, Mechanický klavír, Cat's Cradle a ďalšie. Ako odporca vojny je považovaný za pacifistu, a sám seba vyhlasoval za humanistu, bol dokonca čestným predsedom Americkej asociácie humanistov. Tvorba Kurta Vonneguta významne ovplyvnila vývin vedecko-fantastickej literatúry. Preto bol autor v rokoch 1960, 1964 a 1970 nominovaný na Huggo Award za Najlepší román. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. november 1922 – 11. apríl 2007   •   Ďalšie mená Vonegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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„,, Pokrok má pouze jeden jediný aspekt, který je dokáže opravdu vzrušit. "
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,, Elektrická kytara. "“

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Zdroj: Kolíbka - Kurt Vonnegut, Mladá fronta 1976 (preklad: Jaroslav Kořán)

„Dějiny - čtete v nich a plačte!“

Kurt Vonnegut

praví Bokonon
Zdroj: Kolíbka - Kurt Vonnegut, Mladá fronta 1976 (preklad: Jaroslav Kořán)

„Myslím si, že novely, v ktorých sa nepíše o technológii, skresľujú život rovnako zle, ako ho skresľovali Viktoriáni, keď z nich vynechávali sex.“

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Kurt Vonnegut: Citáty v angličtine

“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 kniha Player Piano

Zdroj: 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 kniha Player Piano

Zdroj: 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 kniha Breakfast of Champions

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 kniha Mother Night

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 kniha 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 kniha Bluebeard

Zdroj: 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 kniha A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“So it goes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha Slaughterhouse-Five

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

“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 kniha Player Piano

Zdroj: 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 kniha 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 kniha The Sirens of Titan

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 kniha Breakfast of Champions

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 kniha The Sirens of Titan

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

“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)

“Wars would be a lot better, I think, if guys would say to themselves sometimes "Jesus — I'm not going to do that to the enemy. That's too much."”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Col. Looseleaf Harper"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.”

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On difficulties with women, as quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84" by Dinitia Smith in The New York Times (11 April 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html
Various interviews

“O Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia—what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing. What could we do or say that could possibly interest Thee? Nothing. Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. No longer can a fool like Malachi Constant point to a ridiculous accident of good luck and say, ‘Somebody up there likes me.’ And no longer can a tyrant say, ‘God wants this or that to happen, and anybody who doesn’t help this or that to happen is against God.’ O Lord Most High, what a glorious weapon is Thy Apathy, for we have unsheathed it, have thrust and slashed mightily with it, and the claptrap that has so often enslaved us or driven us into the madhouse lies slain!”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha The Sirens of Titan

Zdroj: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 215; epigram)

“The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler was elected.”

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As quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut's 'Stardust Memory'" http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1326 by Harvey Wasserman in The Free Press (4 March 2006); in actuality, Hitler also wasn't elected by a clear majority vote. Although the Nazi Party was elected to the largest number of seats in the Reichstag, it did not have a majority, and could only form a government through a coalition. Eventually, Hitler was appointed as Chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg, and used that position as leverage to gain dictatorial powers.
Various interviews

“This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.”

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (1974)

“Derby described the incredible artificial weather that Earthlings sometimes create for other Earthlings when they don't want those other Earthlings to inhabit Earth any more.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha Bluebeard

Zdroj: Bluebeard (1987), p. 91, referring to George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

“He was too good a soldier to go around asking questions, trying to round out his knowledge.
A soldier’s knowledge wasn’t supposed to be round.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha The Sirens of Titan

Zdroj: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)

“And as Paul said these things to himself, a wave of sadness washed over them as though they’d been written in sand. He was understanding now that no man could live without roots—roots in a patch of desert, a red clay field, a mountain slope, a rocky coast, a city street. In black loan, in mud or sand or rock or asphalt or carpet, every man had his roots down deep—in home.”

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Kurt Vonnegut kniha Player Piano

Zdroj: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 23 (p. 227)

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