Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt VonnegutEn Eski Slaughterhouse-Five Sözleri ve Alıntıları
En Eski Slaughterhouse-Five sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Slaughterhouse-Five kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
No art is possible without a dance with death.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
"The colonel said that the other Americans had all shaved now, that Billy and Derby were the only two still with beards. And he said, “You know—we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. ‘My God, my God—’ I said to myself, ‘It’s the Children’s Crusade.’”
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”