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Slaughterhouse Five Quotes - Page 2

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut
People, Slaughterhouse Five, Looks
KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Kurt Vonnegut
Names, Slaughterhouse Five, Dignity
KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Kurt Vonnegut
Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos
Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Kurt Vonnegut
Gratitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Awful
Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.131, Infobase Publishing

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5, Slaughter House Five
KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

...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.

Kurt Vonnegut
Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Alive
Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Kurt Vonnegut
Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim
Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.14, Infobase Publishing

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.

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe
Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

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
Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth
KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

George Saunders
War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five
George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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