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  • How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

    Life   Nice   Numbness  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.19, Infobase Publishing
  • The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

    Silly   Past   People  
  • Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.
  • If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

    War   Character   People  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing
  • It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

    Son   Thinking   People  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

    Love   Beautiful   Book  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

    Home   People   Wife  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”
  • And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.131, Infobase Publishing
  • The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.156, Infobase Publishing
  • It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

    Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes
  • They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

    KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”
  • Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

    Tattoo   Beautiful   Hurt  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.133, Melville House
  • Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

    "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 5, p. 129), 1969.
  • America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

    Wise   Hate   Men  
    "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969.
  • All this happened, more or less.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.112, Infobase Publishing
  • That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.131, Infobase Publishing
  • She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

    Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”
  • Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.14, Infobase Publishing
  • ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing
  • All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC
  • It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing
  • People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

    KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”
  • And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

    Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes
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