“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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“The champagne was dead. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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