Slaughterhouse-Five

Book · 5 characters · 503 quotes · 1968

Quotes from Slaughterhouse-Five

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"Life on Tralfamadore was lovely."
Billy Pilgrim Happiness
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"The most important thing is the lonesomeness."
Billy Pilgrim Solitude
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"Billy Pilgrim said, I would not trade my life for anything."
Billy Pilgrim Life
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"Everything we did on Tralfamadore was beautiful."
Billy Pilgrim Beauty
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"I looked at the clock, and it was time to go to work."
Billy Pilgrim Time
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"You know what I think the strongest emotion is?"
Billy Pilgrim
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"One day when I was young, my father took me to the zoo."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Every day I have been optometrist."
Billy Pilgrim Work
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"The truth is: I am tired."
Billy Pilgrim Truth
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"Bad luck follows anybody who hurts me."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Make your soul grow. Don't let it shrivel."
Eliot Rosewater Wisdom
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"Practicing on the guitar is not dangerous."
Billy Pilgrim Wisdom
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"The only difference between time and any other dimension is that our consciousness moves along it."
Tralfamadorian Time
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim Life
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"Tralfamadorians ignore earthlings"
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
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"That is beautiful"
Billy Pilgrim Beauty
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"All moments exist equally"
Billy Pilgrim Time
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"That was I"
Kurt Vonnegut
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"I will sleep now"
Billy Pilgrim
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"Books are so strange"
Billy Pilgrim Literature
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"Time is an illusion"
Tralfamadorian Time
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"I have been so many different people"
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The past, present, and future are all equally real"
Billy Pilgrim Philosophy
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"So I learned to live with the tremors in my soul"
Billy Pilgrim Perseverance
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"I've thought of an absolutely stunning book"
Billy Pilgrim Creativity
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"I see all moments simultaneously"
Billy Pilgrim Time
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"They should be more merciful"
Billy Pilgrim Kindness
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"That is my favorite book"
Billy Pilgrim Literature
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"The most important thing I have to tell you is that I have nothing important to tell you"
Kurt Vonnegut Philosophy
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"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"
Billy Pilgrim Peace