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... we surely created a Belsen of our own.

Kurt Vonnegut on the bombing of Dresden. Wailing Shall Be in All Streets. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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... boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.

Kurt Vonnegut on the bombing of Dresden. Wailing Shall Be in All Streets. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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I have the humorist Paul Krasner to thank for pointing out a big difference between George W. Bush and Hitler: Hitler was elected.

Kurt Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided that you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.

Kurt Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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We are too cheap. We just want to nuke everybody.

Kurt Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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Religion can be Tylenol for a lot of unhappy people, and I'm so glad it works.

Kurt Vonnegut’s spin on Karl Marx’s “Religion is the opium of the lower classes”. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African-American jazz and its offshoots. What si my definitions of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect.

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The most spiritually splendid American phenomenon of my lifetime is how African-American citizens have maintained their dignity and self-respect, despite their having been treated by white Americans, both in and out of government, and simply because of their skin color, as though they were contemptible and loathsome, and even diseased.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007). Armageddon in Retrospect.

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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.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade.

“‘My God, my God -’ I said to myself, ‘It’s the Children’s Crusade.’“

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He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough any more," said Rosewater.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-five.

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Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Nobody talked. Nobody had any good war stories to tell.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.