Frases de Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. fue un escritor estadounidense, cuyas obras, generalmente adscritas al género de la ciencia ficción, participan también de la sátira y la comedia negra. Es autor de catorce novelas, entre las que destacan Las sirenas de Titán , Matadero cinco y El desayuno de los campeones . Como ciudadano, toda su vida fue seguidor de la Unión Estadounidense por las Libertades Civiles.[1]​ Era conocido por sus ideas humanistas y fue presidente honorario de la Asociación Humanista Estadounidense.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 11. noviembre 1922 – 11. abril 2007   •   Otros nombres Vonegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Frases en inglés

“It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro The Sirens of Titan

Fuente: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 301)

“You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!”

I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro Player Piano

Fuente: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 22 (p. 219)

“What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?”

Kurt Vonnegut libro A Man Without a Country

Martian Visitor
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Well, I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”

As quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut's 'Stardust Memory'" http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1326, Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press (4 March 2006)
Various interviews

“If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now."”

Kurt Vonnegut libro A Man Without a Country

That's my favorite joke.
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United States of America … We argued that is was as good a scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves — and yet it prescribed no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.
We said it was possible that the framers of the Constitution were blind to the beauty of persons who were without great wealth or powerful friends or public office, but who were nonetheless genuinely strong.
We thought it was more likely, though, that their framers had not noticed that it was natural, and therefore almost inevitable, that human beings in extraordinary and enduring situations should think of themselves of composing new families. Eliza and I pointed out that this happened no less in democracies than in tyrannies, since human beings were the same the wide world over, and civilized only yesterday.
Elected representatives, hence, could be expected to become members of the famous and powerful family of elected representatives — which would, perfectly naturally, make them wary and squeamish and stingy with respect to all the other sorts of families which, again, perfectly naturally, subdivided mankind.
Eliza and I … proposed that the Constitution be amended so as to guarantee that every citizen, no matter how humble, or crazy or incompetent or deformed, somehow be given membership in some family as covertly xenophobic and crafty as the one their public servants formed.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro Slapstick

Fuente: Slapstick (1976), Ch. 6

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers — joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"Eliot Rosewater" to a group of volunteer firemen.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“The new heroism — put a village idiot into a pressure cooker, seal it up tight, and shoot him at the moon.”

Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Harold Ryan"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)

“Make love when you can. It's good for you.”

Kurt Vonnegut libro Mother Night

Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)

“What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?”

Kurt Vonnegut libro Jailbird

Fuente: Jailbird (1979), p. 24

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