

“Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“What am I doing in this eternal winter?”
― A Country Doctor
― A Country Doctor

“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
― The Fall
― The Fall

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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