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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

An in-depth biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel written with the cooperation of Rommel's son, by a renowned military analyst and historian who is himself a general.

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Kurt Vonnegut (25)

“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Numbness, alive, Life, Tired, Numb

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Beautiful, Appreciation, Nirvana, beauty, Freedom

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Hatred

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Feeling Nothing, Ghost of A Human

“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Meaning Of Life

“So it goes.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Three Words

“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, dignity

“Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Bad Times, Awful, Overcoming Obstacles

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: America, Consumerism, Buying Shit

“How nice— to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Dead Inside

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Germany

“There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“The boots fit perfectly. Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Nervous

“When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Hungry

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Massacre, Violence

“They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: War

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: America, Economic Inequality

“All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

Tagged: Funny Words

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com