Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

So It Goes."
Unlike Many Of These Quotes, The Repeated Refrain From Vonnegut's Classic Slaughterhouse-Five Isn't Notable For Its Unique Wording So Much As For How Much Emotion - And Dismissal Of Emotion - It Packs Into Three Simple, World-weary Words That Simultaneously Accept And Dismiss Everything. There's A Reason This Quote Graced Practically Every Elegy Written For Vonnegut Over The Past Two Weeks (yes, Including Ours): It Neatly Encompasses A Whole Way Of Life. More Crudely Put: "Shit Happens, And It's Awful, But It's Also Okay. We Deal With It Because We Have To.

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