“On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.
And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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