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Kurt Vonnegut frasi celebri
da Un uomo senza patria, p. 57
Frasi sul viaggio di Kurt Vonnegut
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Frasi sulla vita di Kurt Vonnegut
Dio la benedica, Mr Rosewater
Origine: Da Dio la benedica, signor Rosewater.
Kurt Vonnegut Frasi e Citazioni
da Madre notte
da Le sirene di Titano
Ghiaccio-nove
Ghiaccio-nove
da Destini peggiori della morte, traduzione di Graziella Civiletti
cap. 8; 1988, p. 159
Mattatoio n. 5
da Destini peggiori della morte, traduzione di Graziella Civiletti
cap. 19
Ghiaccio-nove
capp. 78-79
Ghiaccio-nove
Mattatoio n. 5
Dio la benedica, Mr Rosewater
Origine: Da Perle ai porci ovvero Dio la benedica, Mr. Rosewater, traduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani, Einaudi.
Kurt Vonnegut: Frasi in inglese
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
Kilgore Trout's epitaph
Unsourced paraphrase or variant: We are human only to the extent that our ideas remain humane.
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Origine: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 216)
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 313)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
“When you're dead you're dead.”
Introduction (1966)
Mother Night (1961)
“Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.”
A Man Without a Country (2005)
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97: Wear sunscreen.”
Opening words to a commencement address supposedly given by Vonnegut at M.I.T., but actually based on Mary Schmich's June 1, 1997 column for the Chicago Tribune
Misattributed
In A Man Without a Country (2005) p. 80–81 Vonnegut makes a very similar statement:
How do humanists feel about Jesus? I say of Jesus, as all humanists do. "If what he said is good, and so much of it is absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?"
But if Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn't want to be a human being.
I'd just as soon be a rattlesnake.
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
“In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.”
Story: "The commandant's desk" - p.193
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
"At Clowes Hall, Indianapolis, April 27 2007" - p.22 [Page numbers per the 2008 Jonathan Cape hardback edition.]
(From a speech written by Kurt Vonnegut before his death but delivered posthumously on his behalf by son Mark Vonnegut.)
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
“You must all take instructions from me!”
the conscience shrieks, in effect, to all the other mental processes. The other processes try it for a while, note that the conscience is unappeased, that it continues to shriek, and they note, too, that the outside world has not been even microscopically improved by the unselfish acts the conscience has demanded. They rebel at last. They pitch the tyrannous conscience down an oubliette, weld shut the manhole cover of that dark dungeon. They can hear the conscience no more. In the sweet silence, the mental processes look about for a new leader, and the leader most prompt to appear whenever the conscience is stilled, Enlightened Self-interest, does appear. Enlightened Self-interest gives them a flag, which they adore on sight. It is essentially the black and white Jolly Roger, with these words written beneath the skull and crossbones, 'The hell with you, Jack, I've got mine!"
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)