1. Citáty
  2. Autori
  3. Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut citáty
page 6

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.
Kurt Vonnegut fotka
Kurt Vonnegut: 321   citátov 2   Páči sa

Kurt Vonnegut najznámejšie citáty

„,, Pokrok má pouze jeden jediný aspekt, který je dokáže opravdu vzrušit. "
,, Co je to?"
,, Elektrická kytara. "“

Kurt Vonnegut

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.“

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut: Citáty v angličtine

“We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

Paragraph 1 (p. 7 of Welcome to the Monkey House)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), "Harrison Bergeron" (1961)

“"I can't help it," I said. "My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
"You and your what?" he said.
"My soul and my meat," I said.
"They're separate?" he said.
"I sure hope they are," I said. I laughed. "I would hate to be responsible for what my meat does."”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Bluebeard

Zdroj: Bluebeard (1987), p. 246

“And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is. So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Palm Sunday

"Self-Interview", originally appeared in The Paris Review no. 69 (1977)
Palm Sunday (1981)

“No grown woman is a fan of premature ejaculation.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Mildred"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Palm Sunday

"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)

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

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha 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?"”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Breakfast of Champions

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha The Sirens of Titan

Zdroj: 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Mother Night

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

Bennington College address (1970)

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

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha The Sirens of Titan

Zdroj: 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha The Sirens of Titan

Zdroj: 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Player Piano

Zdroj: 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

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

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

"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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha Breakfast of Champions

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha 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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

On humans, interviewed by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=18090&title=kurt-vonnegut/ (13 September 2005)
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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut

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.”

Help us translate this quote
Kurt Vonnegut kniha God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

Podobní autori

Richard Bach fotka
Richard Bach 47
americký duchovný spisovateľ
Robert Fulghum fotka
Robert Fulghum 54
americký spisovateľ
William Saroyan fotka
William Saroyan 9
americký spisovateľ
John Steinbeck fotka
John Steinbeck 59
americký spisovateľ
Charles Bukowski fotka
Charles Bukowski 78
americký spisovateľ
Dale Carnegie fotka
Dale Carnegie 73
americký spisovateľ a prednášajúci
Henry Louis Mencken fotka
Henry Louis Mencken 33
americký novinár a spisovateľ
Joseph Campbell fotka
Joseph Campbell 16
americký mytológ, spisovateľ a prednášajúci
Woody Allen fotka
Woody Allen 91
americký scenárista, režisér, herec, komik, spisovateľ, d...
Carlos Castaneda fotka
Carlos Castaneda 9
peruánsky americký autor