Slaughterhouse 5 Quotes

Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today?

Before we'd arrived, I'd asked my brother to stock our room with paperback classics and murder mysteries - Jamie Watson's poison, if you'll excuse the expression - and I hope that he'll be engrossed enough in Slaughterhouse 5 to not notice that, from time to time, I would slip out to do some work on my own. The fact that Milo ordered those books in German is an unfunny joke and hardly my fault.

Lilath took me to a slaughterhouse on Earth when I was young. And I saw how they would kill the cows and then make them into food for us to eat. Tell me: why are cows different from people? Cows have dreams. Cows have affection for their friends and family. If you are going to say it is because cows are less intelligent than people, it is acceptable to slaughter them, why is not acceptable for me to slaughter people who are proportionately less intelligent to me than cows are to them? And if you say it is because people feel more, then I invite you to stab a cow and a human in the throat and see how very similar they are.

He had no idea that people thought he was clowning. It was Fate, of course, which had costumed him--Fate, and a feeble will to survive.

Quasi non ci sono personaggi, in questa storia, e quasi non ci sono confronti drammatici, perché la maggior parte degli individui che vi figurano sono mal ridotti, sono solo trastulli indifferenti in mano a forze immense. Uno dei principali effetti della guerra è, in fondo, che la gente è scoraggiata dal farsi personaggio.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick The Secret Meaning of Things, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fantastic Four #89, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth City of the Chasch, Jack Vance Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

Matthew Scudder The Novels #1 The Sins of the Fathers #2 Time to Murder and Create #3 In the Midst of Death #4 A Stab in the Dark #5 Eight Million Ways to Die #6 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes #7 Out on the Cutting Edge #8 A Ticket to the Boneyard #9 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse #10 A Walk Among the Tombstones #11 The Devil Knows You’re Dead #12 A Long Line of Dead Men #13 Even the Wicked #14 Everybody Dies #15 Hope to Die #16 All the Flowers are Dying #17 A Drop of the Hard Stuff #18 The Night and the Music (Collected Short Stories) #19 A Time to Scatter Stones (A Novella)

Eaker’s foreword ended this way: I deeply regret that British and U.S. bombers killed 135,000 people in the attack on Dresden, but I remember who started the last war and I regret even more the loss of more than 5,000,000 Allied lives in the necessary effort to completely defeat and utterly destroy nazism. So it goes.

Ogni gruppo di simboli è un breve messaggio urgente che descrive una situazione, una scena. Noi tralfamadoriani li leggiamo tutti in una volta, non uno dopo l'altro. Non c'è alcun rapporto particolare tra i messaggi, se non che l'autore li ha scelti con cura in modo che, visti tutti insieme, producano un'immagine della vita che sia bella, sorprendente e profonda. Non c'è principio, parte di mezzo o fine, non c'è suspense, né morale, né cause ed effetti. Quella che amiamo nei nostri libri è la profondità di molti momenti meravigliosi visti tutti in una volta.

When Carol arrived at the sanctuary, she had pink spray paint on her back, marking her to be slaughtered. Her muscles were weak from being confined for most of her life to a sow stall, she was given fruit to eat but didn’t know what to do with it, having never seen fruit in her life. But that same day, after a little warming up, she got excited and started running and dancing around the paddock happily. She also had her very first mud bath. Now, a few months on, Carol has settled well into her new sanctuary life. She was introduced to the other pig residents, has established herself within the pecking order, and has seemingly even adopted a son, Iggle Piggle, a younger pig. The two are inseparable and are often found cuddling together. We like to think of Iggle Piggle as the son she never got to keep, having had between 80–120 piglets taken from her in her 4–5 year lifespan.

They had been behind German lines before many times - living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords.

When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past...All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. 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.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.