Slaughterhouse 5 Tralfamadorians Quotes & Sayings

Believe me, I've thought long and hard about leaving things alone. But then there will always be this wall between us." "It's all ugly things behind the wall," I said, not looking at him. "I'm not afraid of what's behind the wall, only the wall itself." But the wall was my exoskeleton. It was what held me up. Sometimes it was the only thing that held me up. — Sherry Thomas

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature ... This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life. — John Dewey

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them. — Erich Fromm

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. — Henry Van Dyke

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp. — Clark Johnson

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. — William James

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting. — Maud Hart Lovelace

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird. — John James Audubon

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back, and I promise I won't miss! — Jack Bauer

Self-styled pioneers braved the dirt and crime of rundown neighborhoods where, in the early 1980s, they could buy as much as five thousand square feet in a dilapidated brownstone for as little as $25,000. — Jonathan Soffer