Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

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America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselv — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe tha — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very m — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies heonly appears to die. He is still very m — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that was twin — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 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 — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quie — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 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 — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so eas — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five