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17 Quotes From Slaughterhouse-Five That Will Leave You Speechlessly In Awe

Brooke Shaden

17 Quotes From Slaughterhouse-Five That Will Leave You Speechlessly In Awe

Despite it being the 46th most banned book in the United States, 'Slaughterhouse-Five' is one of the most poignant literary masterpieces of the 21st century. So it goes.  

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

— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

LifeNihilism

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    I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    AlcoholDrinking Too Much

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

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Bad TimesAwfulOvercoming Obstacles

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

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Lovedignity

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    Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Meaning Of Life

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

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    TimeCompressed TimeAll At Once

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    It is just an illusion we have 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.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    SimilesTimeEarth

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    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: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    AmericaConsumerismBuying Shit

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    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, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Nervous

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    America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    AmericaEconomic Inequality

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    When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Hungry

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    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.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    MassacreViolence

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    They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    War

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    All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Funny Words

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    So it goes.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Three Words

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    There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Nothing

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    Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    Feeling NothingGhost of A Human

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