Slaughterhouse 5 Quotes

• - ¿Por qué yo? - Esa es una pregunta muy terrícola, Sr. Pilgrim. ¿Por qué usted? ¿Por qué nosotros? ¿Por qué cualquier cosa? Porque este momento simplemente es. ¿Alguna vez has visto insectos atrapados en ámbar? - Sí. - Bueno, aquí estamos, Sr. Pilgrim, atrapados en el ámbar de este momento. No hay por qué.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Matadero Cinco, Ámbar, Materia

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). "Matadero cinco: o, La cruzada de los niños, un deber-baile con la muerte".

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• There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

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  Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Causes

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• It is just an illusion 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.

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  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

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  Intelligent, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouses

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.3, Infobase Publishing

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• Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

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  Tattoo, Beautiful, Hurt

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.133, Melville House

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• Qué bien... no sentir nada y aún así tener todo el mérito de estar vivo.

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  Life, Nice, Numbness

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). "Conversaciones con Kurt Vonnegut", p.140, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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  Healing, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughter House Five

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

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  Mentir, Pensar, Gente

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.135, Infobase Publishing

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Matter, Why Me

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

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  Thinking, People, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

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  Home, People, Wife

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). "Matadero cinco: o, La cruzada de los niños, un deber-baile con la muerte".

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• And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

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  Bird, Slaughterhouse Five, Tees

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

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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

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Next, States

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). "Matadero cinco: o, La cruzada de los niños, un deber-baile con la muerte".

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• 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.

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe

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

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• ...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.

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  Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Alive

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

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• All this happened, more or less.

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos, Slaughterhouses

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.112, Infobase Publishing

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

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  Gratitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Awful

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

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

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  Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughter House Five, Wells

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

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  Nice, Grateful, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). "MATADERO-CINCO"

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• No hay ninguna relación particular entre los mensajes, salvo que el autor los ha elegido cuidadosamente, de modo que, vistos todos a la vez, producen una imagen de la vida que es bella y sorprendente y profunda. No hay principio, ni nudo, ni desenlace, ni suspense, ni moraleja, ni causas, ni efectos. Lo que amamos en nuestros libros es la profundidad de muchos momentos maravillosos vistos todos a la vez.

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  Amor, Hermoso, Libro

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• Hemos tenido que imaginar la guerra aquí, y hemos imaginado que la libraban hombres mayores como nosotros. Habíamos olvidado que las guerras eran libradas por bebés. Cuando vi esas caras recién afeitadas, fue un shock. "'Dios mío, Dios mío', me dije, 'es la Cruzada de los Niños'.

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  Baby, Children, War

  Slaughterhouse-Five ch. 5 (1969)

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• Era una persona aburrida, pero una sensacional invitación a hacer bebés.

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  Baby, Slaughterhouse Five, Dull

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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• Estados Unidos es la nación más rica de la Tierra, pero su población es mayoritariamente pobre, y a los estadounidenses pobres se les insta a odiarse a sí mismos.

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  Odio, América, Gente

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). "MATADERO-CINCO"

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• She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

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  Mother, Giving, Ungrateful

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). "MATADERO CINCO"

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