Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five Quotes
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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.
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.
That’s the attractive thing about war, ” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.
The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.
How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.
She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.
Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.
How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
