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Slaughterhouse-Five quotes

Kurt Vonnegut

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“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to leam, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“And on and on it went— that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man so full of loving echoes.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“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.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“I could carve a better man out of a banana.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut, 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. She was turned to a pillar of salt.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what the Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“That's one thing Earthlings might leam to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.” Kurt Vonnegut, 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.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“I'm going to go on a diet. I'm going to become beautiful for you.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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