Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Cites

• Book (1)
  • IN: Cat's Cradle (1963) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
    FROM: The Books of Bokonon. 1:5, (1963), Book, NULL
• Unknown (1)
  • IN: Daughter of Five (1969) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: The cattle are lowing, The baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus No crying He makes.
    FROM: Away in a Manger, (1875), Song, UK
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: The cattle are lowing, / The Baby awakes. / But the little Lord Jesus / No crying He makes.
    FROM: Away in a Manger, (1875), Song, UK
  • IN: The Sirens of Titan (1959) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insists that there is no such thing as progress.
    FROM: Fern, Ransom K., (1959), Fictional, NULL
• Bible (2)
  • IN: Breakfast of Champions (1973) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
    FROM: JOB, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Player Piano (1952) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: They toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory Was not arrayed like one of these….
    FROM: Matthew 6:28, (100), Bible, NULL
• Anne Frank (1)
  • IN: Galapagos (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
    FROM: Diary of Anne Frank, (1947), Book, Germany
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Slapstick or Lonesome No More! (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Call me but love, and i'll be new baptiz'...
    FROM: Romeo, (1597), Play, UK
• Henry David Thoreau (2)
  • IN: Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Bewar eof all enterprises that require new clothes.
    FROM: Walden, (1854), Book, US
  • IN: Wampeters, Foma & Granfaloons (1965) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have traveled extensively in Concord.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Malachi Constant (1)
  • IN: The Sirens of the Titan (1959) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I guess somebody up there likes me.
    FROM: NULL, (1959), Fictional, NULL
• Kurt Vonnegut (2)
  • IN: God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a purple heart one.
    FROM: Rosewater, Elliot, (1965), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: A Man Without a Country (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle park, and a sleeping drinkard up in Central Park, and a chinese dentist and a british queen all fit together. In the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people, in the same device!
    FROM: Bokonon (fictitious religion), (2005), Fictional, US
• Dr. Mark Vonnegut M.D. (1)
  • IN: Bluebeard (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.
    FROM: Letter to Kurt Vonnegut, (1985), Letter, US
• K. V. (1)
  • IN: Hocus Pocus (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To virtually all of his idiosyncrasies I, after much thought, have applied what another author once told me was the most sacred word in a great editor’s vocabulary. That word is “stet.”
    FROM: NULL, (1990), Author, NULL
• Clemens Vonnegut (1)
  • IN: Palm Sunday (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever entertains liberal views and chooses a consort that is captured by superstition risks his liberty and his happiness .
    FROM: Instruction in Morals (The Hollenbeck Press), (1900), Book, US

Cited by

• Charles J Shields (2)
  • IN: And So it Goes Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (2011) Autobiography, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kurt will have the last word, if not the last laugh - and we will miss that laugh! That ineffable, smoke-laden, sardonically elated laughter that suffused and punctuated his conversation. Laughter that at times seemed inappropriate following the retelling of some of the most ghastly events of the twentieth century. THis laughter was a mental bulwark against the madness of war he witnessed.
    FROM: Foma & Granfalloons, (1974), Book, US
• Donald E. Morse (1)
  • IN: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining being and American. (2003) Criticism and interpretation, science fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Imagine being an American.
    FROM: Fates Worse Than Death, (1991), Book, US
• Aidan Chambers (1)
  • IN: Dance on My Grave (1982) Fiction, Homosexuality, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
    FROM: Mother Night, (1961), Novel, US
• Kitty Aldridge (2)
  • IN: A Trick I learned From Dead Men (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So it goes.
    FROM: Slaughterhouse-Five, (1969), Novel, US
  • IN: A Trick I Learnt From Dead Men (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So it goes
    FROM: Slaughterhouse-Five, (1969), Novel, US
• C. J. Daugherty (1)
  • IN: Fracture (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Kimberly Derting (1)
  • IN: The Replaced (2015) Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And so it goes . . .
    FROM: Slaughterhouse-Five, (1969), Novel, US
• Alice Pung (1)
  • IN: Lucy and Linh (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Life is nothing but high school.
    FROM: Introduction to "Our Time is Now", (1970), NULL, US
• Kurt Vonnegut (2)
  • IN: God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a purple heart one.
    FROM: Rosewater, Elliot, (1965), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: A Man Without a Country (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle park, and a sleeping drinkard up in Central Park, and a chinese dentist and a british queen all fit together. In the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people, in the same device!
    FROM: Bokonon (fictitious religion), (2005), Fictional, US
• Sherman Alexie (1)
  • IN: Flight (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Po-tee-weet?”
    FROM: Slaughterhouse-Five, (1969), Novel, US
• Ben Stewart (1)
  • IN: Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
    FROM: NULL, (2006), NULL, US
• Alexandra Fuller (1)
  • IN: Quiet Until the Thaw (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
    FROM: Timequake, (1997), Novel, US
• Tim Dorsey (1)
  • IN: Coconut Cowboy (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
    FROM: Welcome to the Monkey House, (1968), Book, US