Frases de Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. foi um escritor estadunidense de ascendência germânica.

Concluída a formação em Química, alistou-se no exército e combateu na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Feito prisioneiro, presenciou o bombardeamento de Dresden. Após a Guerra, formou-se em Antropologia.

É autor de vários romances, ensaios e peças de teatro, entre os quais se destacam Player Piano de 1952, Cat’s Cradle de 1963, Slaughterhouse-Five de 1969, Breakfast of Champions de 1973 e Galápagos de 1985. Sua última obra foi Look at the Birdie de 2009, livro póstumo com uma coleção de contos e ensaios.

Vonnegut morreu em 11 de abril de 2007, semanas após uma queda em sua casa em Manhattan que resultou em graves complicações cerebrais.

✵ 11. Novembro 1922 – 11. Abril 2007  •  Outros nomes Vonegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Kurt Vonnegut Frases famosas

“Humanista é uma pessoa com grande interesse pelos seres humanos. Meu cachorro é humanista.”

I have found that a humanist is a person who is tremendously interested in human beings. My dog is a humanist.
citado em "The Vonnegut encyclopedia: an authorized compendium"‎ - Página 311, de Marc Leeds - Greenwood Press, 1995, ISBN 0313292302, 9780313292309 - 693 páginas

“Lá no bar, espiando através dos meus escapes para um mundo que eu mesmo havia inventado, falei baixinho a seguinte palavra: esquizofrenia. O som e a aparência dessa palavra me fascinavam havia muitos anos. A mim soava e parecia como um ser humano espirrando numa nevasca de flocos de sabão.”

Kurt Vonnegut livro Breakfast of Champions

There in the cocktail lounge, peering out through my leaks at a world of my own invention, I mouthed this word: schizophrenia. The sound and appearance of the word had fascinated me for many years. It sounded and looked to me like a human being sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes.
Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! - Página 198, Kurt Vonnegut - Delacorte Press, 1973 - 295 páginas

“Esta provavelmente é a história da minha vida: falta de determinação suficiente.”

Kurt Vonnegut livro Breakfast of Champions

that's probably the story of my life: not enough determination.
Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! - Página 110, Kurt Vonnegut - Delacorte Press, 1973 - 295 páginas

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“Muitas pessoas precisam desesperadamente receber esta mensagem: "Sinto e penso tanto quanto você, se preocupa com muitas das coisas com as quais se importa, embora a maioria das pessoas não se importe com elas. Você não está sozinho".”

Kurt Vonnegut: Frases em inglês

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro The Sirens of Titan

Fonte: 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.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

“This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Deadeye Dick

Fonte: Deadeye Dick (1982), p. 6

“Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.”

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I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)

“Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

“As far as I’m concerned,” said Constant, “the Universe is a junk yard, with everything in it overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain,” said Constant, “has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro The Sirens of Titan

Fonte: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 12 “The Gentleman from Tralfamadore” (p. 290)

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Player Piano

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

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro A Man Without a Country

Martian Visitor
A Man Without a Country (2005)

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Chapter 1 Page 4 http://miltonthed.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/vonnegut_kurt_-_god_bless_you_mr_rosewater.pdf <br class="br">God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

“People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.”

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Interview Public Radio International (October 2006)
Various interviews

“Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Timequake

Timequake (1997)

“Don't lecture me on race relations. I don't have a molecule of prejudice. I've been in battle with every kind of man there is. I've been in bed with every kind of woman there is — from a Laplander to a Tierra del Fuegian. If I'd ever been to the South Pole, there'd be a hell of a lot of penguins who looked like me.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

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

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

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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) <br class="br">Various interviews

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro 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.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Slapstick

Fonte: 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.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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

“Drawn crudely in the dust of three window-panes were a swastika, a hammer and sickle, and the Stars and Stripes. I had drawn the three symbols weeks before, at the conclusion of an argument about patriotism with Kraft. I had given a hearty cheer for each symbol, demonstrating to Kraft the meaning of patriotism to, respectively, a Nazi, a Communist, and an American. "Hooray, hooray, hooray," I'd said.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Mother Night

Mother Night (1961)

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro 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.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

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

“All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro The Sirens of Titan

Fonte: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 85)

“You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro The Sirens of Titan

Fonte: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 69)

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Mother Night

Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)

“What do I myself think of this particular book? I feel lousy about it, but I always feel lousy about my books.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“[Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife] is for me a secretly deep history of a generation of middle-class American males, my own, which was taught by parents and athletic coaches and scoutmasters and military chaplains and quack doctors and so on to be deeply ashamed of masturbation and wet dreams.
And the hidden plea in the book is one which first appeared in my eyes when I was fourteen, say, and which has not vanished entirely to this day. It is part of the mystery of me. The plea is addressed by old-fashioned males forever full of jism to any pretty human female, on the street, in a magazine, in a movie — anywhere. The plea is this: "Please, pretty lady, don't make me play with my private parts again."”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Palm Sunday

"The Sexual Revolution" (ndg)
Palm Sunday (1981)

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

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Jailbird

Fonte: Jailbird (1979), p. 24

“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?”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Bluebeard

Fonte: Bluebeard (1987), p. 168

“Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
“Every failure of Earthling leadership has been traceable to a lack on the part of the leader,” says Rumfoord, “of at least one of these three things.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro The Sirens of Titan

Fonte: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 174)

“I know that millions of dollars have been spent to produce this splendid graduating class, and that the main hope of your teachers was, once they got through with you, that you would no longer be superstitious. I'm sorry — I have to undo that now. I beg you to believe in the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or the frustrator of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
If you can believe that, and make others believe it, then there might be hope for us. Human beings might stop treating each other like garbage, might begin to treasure and protect each other instead. Then it might be all right to have babies again.”

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Bennington College address (1970)

“Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.”

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Kurt Vonnegut livro Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle (1963)

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