"Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes."
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"Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones."
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"...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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"It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love."
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"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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"People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."
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"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."
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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
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"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
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"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."
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"She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies."
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"The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty."
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"When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."
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"If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
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