Slaughterhouse Five War Quotes

#1. I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

Seanan McGuire

#2. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve
it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.

Jonathan Evison

#4. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Aren't they beautiful? Look at the smoke. I'm dancing in the smoke, Alowa.

Glenn Haybittle

#7. If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

Joe Trippi

#8. Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

Roy Peter Clark

#9. All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. [ ... ] To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)

Don DeLillo

#11. How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

Nicholas Sparks