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Edward Teller

Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (15 January 1908 – 9 September 2003) was an American nuclear physicist, known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."

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 * It is not even impossible to imagine that the effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons and pushed by the utmost determination will endanger the survival of man.
 * How Dangerous Are Atomic Weapons?, 1947

 * If we stay strong, then I believe we can stabilize the world and have peace based on force. Now, peace based on force is not as good as peace based on agreement, but in the terrible world in which we live, in the world where the Russians have enslaved many millions of human beings, in the world where they have killed men, I think that for the time being the only peace we can have is the peace based on force. Furthermore, I do not think that this peace based on force is, can be, or should be, an ultimate end. Our ultimate end must be precisely what Dr. Pauling says, peace based on agreement, on understanding, on universally agreed and enforced law. I think this is a wonderful idea, but peace based on force buys the necessary time, and in this time we can work for better understanding, for closer collaboration, first with the countries which are closest to us, which we understand better, our allies, the western countries, the NATO countries, which believe in human liberties as we do. Then, as soon as possible, with the rest of the free world, and eventually, I hope, with the whole world, including Russia, even though it may take many years to come.
 * Debating Linus Pauling, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958)

 * I don't want to kill anybody. I am passionately opposed to killing, but I'm even more passionately fond of freedom. The freedom of Dr. Pauling and of myself expressing our opinions freely on any subject, however broad, however far removed of our proper competence, but particularly, to be able to express our opinions in the fields we really know; this would not be possible in Russia.
 * Debating Linus Pauling, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958)

 * Ladies and gentlemen, I am to talk to you about energy in the future. I will start by telling you why I believe that the energy resources of the past must be supplemented. First of all, these energy resources will run short as we use more and more of the fossil fuels. But I would [...] like to mention another reason why we probably have to look for additional fuel supplies. And this, strangely, is the question of contaminating the atmosphere. [....] Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide. [....] The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it? Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.
 * As quoted in Benjamin Franta, "On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming", , 1 January 2018.

 * At present the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 2 per cent over normal. By 1970, it will be perhaps 4 per cent, by 1980, 8 per cent, by 1990, 16 per cent [about 360 parts per million, by Teller’s accounting], if we keep on with our exponential rise in the use of purely conventional fuels. By that time, there will be a serious additional impediment for the radiation leaving the earth. Our planet will get a little warmer. It is hard to say whether it will be 2 degrees Fahrenheit or only one or 5. But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise. Well, I don’t know whether they will cover the Empire State Building or not, but anyone can calculate it by looking at the map and noting that the icecaps over Greenland and over Antarctica are perhaps five thousand feet thick.
 * As quoted in Benjamin Franta, "On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming", , 1 January 2018.

 * On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.
 * 2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the Wall Street Journal (31 July 1979)

 * By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.
 * The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981), p. 72

 * The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair's breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. What we do have in our technological capacities is an opportunity to use our inventiveness, our creativity, our wisdom and our understanding of our fellow beings to create a future world that is a little better than the one in which we live today.
 * The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981), p. 151
 * Variant: Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. I believe the most important aim for humanity at present is to avoid war, dictatorship, and their awful consequences.
 * Better a Shield Than A Sword : Perspectives On Defense And Technology (1987), p. 241

 * There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
 * As quoted in "Nuclear Reactions", by Joel Davis in Omni (May 1988)

 * A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
 * Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (1991) by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, Ch. 5, p. 69 footnote

 * Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
 * Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (1991) by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, Ch. 9, p. 135 footnote

 * Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
 * Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (1991) by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, Ch. 10, p. 150 footnote

 * No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.
 * Response to a nurse, questioning him after a stroke in 1996: "Are you the famous Edward Teller?" — as quoted in Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb (2001) by John Bankston, p. 9

 * We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
 * "Science and Morality" in Science (1998), Vol. 280, p. 1200

 * Religion was not an issue in my family; indeed, it was never discussed. My only religious training came because the Minta required that all students take classes in their respective religions. My family celebrated one holiday, the Day of Atonement, when we all fasted. Yet my father said prayers for his parents on Saturdays and on all the Jewish holidays. The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years.
 * Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics., (2002) by Edward Teller, Basic Books, p. 32.

 * I contributed; Ulam did not. I'm sorry I had to answer it in this abrupt way. Ulam was rightly dissatisfied with an old approach. He came to me with a part of an idea which I already had worked out and difficulty getting people to listen to. He was willing to sign a paper. When it then came to defending that paper and really putting work into it, he refused. He said, "I don't believe in it."
 * On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in "Infamy and honor at the Atomic Café : Edward Teller has no regrets about his contentious career" by Gary Stix in Scientific American (October 1999), p. 42-43.

 * My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove. What else can I say?... Look. Say it three times more, and I throw you out of this office.
 * Quoted in "Infamy and honor at the Atomic Café : Edward Teller has no regrets about his contentious career" by Gary Stix in Scientific American (October 1999), p. 42-43

 * The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.
 * Memoirs : A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics (2001), co-written with Judith Shoolery, p. 5

 * When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
 * As quoted by Robert C. Martin in Software Development magazine (September 2005), p. 60

 * At the end of the war, most people wanted to stop. I didn't. Because here was more knowledge. And in the coming uncertain period, with a dangerous man like Stalin around, and our incomplete knowledge, I felt that more knowledge is necessary. Among the people who knew a great deal about the hydrogen bomb, I was the only advocate of it. And that is, I think, my contribution. Not that I invented it, others would have — and others in the Soviet Union did. But I was the one person who put knowledge, and the availability of knowledge, above everything else.
 * On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

 * There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge — especially if the knowledge is terrible.
 * As quoted in Forbidden Knowledge : From Prometheus to Pornography (1996) by Roger Shattuck, p. 177

 * Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
 * As quoted in Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '87 (1988) edited by F. J. Duarte, p. 1165

This is misattributed. This is not a quote from Teller. It is a poem by Patrick Overton.
 * When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
 * As quoted in Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business (2002) by Jane M. Frutchey, p. 121

 * If we could have ended the war by showing the power of science without killing a single person, all of us would now be happier, more reasonable and much more safe.
 * As quoted in "Edward Teller Is Dead at 95; Fierce Architect of H-Bomb", New York Times (Sept. 10, 2003) by Walter Sullivan.

 * I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
 * As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251

 * I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
 * As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251

 * I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.'''
 * As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251

 * I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
 * As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251

 * I believe that no endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
 * As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251

 * "A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bombs; the bombs are much bigger. So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. F stands for fission; that is what things do When they get wobbly and big and must split in two. And just to confound the atomic confusion What fission has done may be undone by fusion. H has become a most ominous letter; It means something bigger, if not something better. S stands for secret; you can keep it forever — Provided there's no one abroad who is clever."
 * "Atom Alphabet", Alamogordo Daily News, from Alamogordo, New Mexico; pg5 of 14 November 1957

Quotes about Teller

 * Business institutions universities Both are quite the circus where the killer wants his way I think of Edward Teller and his moribund reprise Then I look to Nevada and I can't believe my eyes It's time for him to die!
 * Bad Religion, in The Biggest Killer in American History

 * Dr. Teller has a mind very different from mine. I think one needs both kinds of minds to make a successful project. I think Dr. Teller's mind runs particularly to making brilliant inventions, but what he needs is some control, some other person who is more able to find out just what is the scientific fact about the matter. Some other person who weeds out the bad from the good ideas.
 * Hans Bethe, as quoted in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954 security hearings), p. 331

 * Teller's mistake was his failure to foresee that a large section of the public would not consider his appearance at the Oppenheimer hearing to be decent behavior. Had Teller not appeared, the outcome of the hearing would almost certainly have been unaffected, and the moral force of Teller's position would not have been tainted.
 * Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979), p. 88

 * Before Bethe married, he was so often a guest in the Teller home that he became almost one of the family. In April, 1954, that was all over. There could be no real reconciliation. Bethe had lost one of his oldest friends. But Teller had lost more. Teller, by lending his voice to the cause of Oppenheimer's enemies, had lost not only the friendship but the respect of many of his colleagues, and he was portrayed by newspaper writers and cartoonists as a Judas, a man who had betrayed his leader for the sake of personal gain.
 * Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979), p. 90

 * When we came back through the trees to the house, we heared a strange sound coming through the open door. The children stopped their chatter and we all stood outside the door and listened. It was my old friend from long ago, Bach's Prelude No. 8 in E-flat minor. Superbly played. Played just the way my father used to play it. For a moment I was completely disoriented. I thought: What the devil is my father doing here in California? We stood in front of our Berkeley house and listened to that prelude. Whoever was playing it was putting into it his whole heart and soul. The sound floated up to us like a chorus of mourning from the depths, as if the spirits in the underworld were dancing to a slow pavane. We waited until the music came to an end and then walked in. There, sitting at the piano, was Edward Teller. We asked him to go on playing, but he excused himself.
 * Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979), p. 92

 * The physicist Edward Teller, known as the “father of the H-bomb,” went further to deny that omnicide—a concept he derided—was remotely feasible. In answer to a question I posed to him as late as 1982, he said emphatically it was “impossible” to kill by any imaginable use of thermonuclear weapons that he had co-invented “more than a quarter of the earth’s population.” At the time, I thought of this assurance, ironically, as his perception of “the glass being three-quarters full.” (Teller was, along with Kahn, Henry Kissinger, and the former Nazi missile designer Wernher von Braun, one of Kubrick’s inspirations for the character of Dr. Strangelove.) And Teller’s estimate was closely in line with what the JCS actually planned to do in 1961, though a better estimate (allowing for the direct effects of fire, which JSC calculations have always omitted) would have been closer to one-third to one-half of total omnicide. But the JCS were mistaken in 1961, and so was Herman Kahn in 1960, and so was Teller in 1982. Nobody’s perfect. Just one year after Teller had made this negative assertion (at a hearing of the California state legislature which we both addressed, on the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative), the first papers appeared on the nuclear-winter effects of smoke injected into the stratosphere by firestorms generated by a thousand or more of the fifty thousand existing H-bombs used on cities. Contrary to Kahn and Teller, an American Doomsday Machine already existed in 1961—and had for years—in the form of pre-targeted bombers on alert in the Strategic Air Command (SAC), soon to be joined by Polaris submarine-launched missiles. Although this machine wasn’t likely to kill outright or starve to death literally every last human, its effects, once triggered, would come close enough to that to deserve the name Doomsday.
 * Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (2017)
 * He is a danger to all that is important. I do really feel it would have been a better world without Teller.
 * Isidor Isaac Rabi, in a statement of 1968, as quoted in The Myths of August : A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair With the Atom (1998) by Stewart L. Udall, p. 283

 * After he suffered a stroke three years ago, a nurse quizzed him to probe his lucidity. "Are you the famous Edward Teller?" she queried. "No," he snapped. "I'm the infamous Edward Teller."
 * Gary Stix in "Infamy and honor at the Atomic Café : Edward Teller has no regrets about his contentious career," Scientific American (October 1999), p 42

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Pervez Musharraf

General Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرويز مشرف; born 11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was de facto Head of Government (using the title Chief Executive and assuming extensive powers) of Pakistan on 12 October 1999, following a bloodless coup d'état. He assumed the office of President of Pakistan (becoming Head of State) on 20 June 2001.

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 * If we want to normalize relations between Pakistan and India and bring harmony to the region, the Kashmir dispute will have to be resolved peacefully through a dialogue, on the basis of the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. Solving the Kashmir issue is the joint responsibility of our two countries … Mr Vajpayee, … I take you up on this offer. Let us start talking in this spirit.
 * Quoted in

 * The excesses committed during the unfortunate period are regrettable.
 * About the 1971 Bangladesh war. In a recent State visit to Bangladesh in July 2002, Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf wrote in a visitors’ book at the Savar War Memorial that “the excesses committed during the unfortunate period are regrettable.”

 * I think they'd both lose miserably.
 * Interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, when asked who would win in a Pakistani election - George W. Bush or Osama Bin Laden.

 * We are in a state where these semi-literate clerics are closing the minds of people.
 * Pakistan's President Says Muslim Nations Should Stop Blaming Others (May 2007)

 * “Kashmiris who came to Pakistan received a hero reception here. We used to train them and support them. We considered them as Mujahideen who will fight with the Indian Army. Then, various terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba rose in this period. They (jihadi terrorists) were our heroes.” ... [ Osama bin Laden and Jalaluddin Haqqani were] “Pakistani heroes”. “In 1979, we had introduced religious militancy in Afghanistan to benefit Pakistan, and to push the Soviets out of the country. We brought Mujahideen from all over the world, we trained them and supplied weapons to them. We trained the Taliban, sent them in. They were our heroes. Haqqani was our hero. Osama bin Laden was our hero. Ayman al-Zawahiri was our hero. Then the global environment changed. The world started viewing things differently. Our heroes were turned into villains.”…
 * As Quoted in “Watch: Pervez Musharraf Says ‘Osama bin Laden Was Pakistan’s Hero,'” ANI, (14 November 2019)

 * General Musharraf commented on the Hamood-ur Rehman Commission report while at the UN Millennial Conference in New York, in September 2000. He said. Let s forget the bitterness of the past and move forward. [....] Something happened 30 years ago. Why do we want to live in history? As a Pakistani, I would like to forget 1971.
 * quoted in    Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page 83

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 * I wish President Musharraf well, we want to work with him to bring greater balance in our own relations. But I have to be realistic enough to recognize the role that terrorist elements have played in the last few years in the history of Pakistan. Taliban was the creation of Pakistan extremists, the Wahabi Islam which has flourished, thousands and thousands of schools, the madrassas, were set up to preach this jihad based on hatred of other religions . . . and Pakistan is not a democracy in the sense that we know and you know. . . . We wish Pakistan success in emerging as a moderate Muslim state. We will work with President Musharraf . . . but we have to recognize what has happened.
 * Manmohan Singh, as quoted in "Interview: Indian Prime Minister Singh", The Washington Post (20 July 2005)

 * General Pervez Musharaff, supposedly an ally in the fight against Islamic terrorism, seized power in Pakistan with a military coup that overthrew an elected government. He appointed himself president in 2001 and then attempted to legitimize his rule by being elected in 2002. However, the election was heavily boycotted and did not come close to meeting international standards. Musharraf agreed to step down as head of the military at the end of 2004, but then changed his mind, claiming that the nation needed to unify its political and military elements and that he could provide this unity. He justified his decision by stating, "I think the country is more important than democracy." Musharraf was an ardent supporter of Afghanistan's Taliban regime. Yet his greater transgression concerns Pakistan's role in the spread of nuclear technology. In early 2004 it was revealed that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the head of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program, had been selling nuclear technology to the dictatorships of North Korea, Libya, and Iran. Musharraf claimed, rather unconvincingly, that he knew nothing about this dangerous and illict trade. He also gave Khan an unconditional pardon.
 * David Wallechinsky, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006), pp. 5-6

Also See

 * Pakistan
 * Lahore
 * Imran Khan
 * Benazir Bhutto
 * Shahid Afridi
 * Law
 * Akhtar Aly Kureshy
 * Asif Ali Zardari
 * Nawaz Sharif

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Samuel Ullman

Samuel Ullman (13 April 1840 - 21 March 1924) was an American businessman, poet and humanitarian.

Youth (1918)

 * Published in From the Summit of Years, Four Score (1922) · Full text of "Youth" online at Samuel Ullman Museum

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. '''Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.''' Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.
 * Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty. In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infinite — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!
 * In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
 * Variant:
 * You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
 * This appears as the concluding text after "the joy of the game of living" in the version published in The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood (1934) edited by Jane Manner, p. 323; also in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) compiled by The Library of Congress

Quotes about Ullman
Seeking improved economic circumstances for his family, Ullman moved to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1884. In this New South city, he established a hardware store, joined a small Reform congregation, and was immediately placed on Birmingham’s board of education. As chairman of the board, he gave critical support for creation of a high school for blacks in the city, one of the few such schools anywhere in the South at that time. Ullman’s energy and charisma also won him a place on the city’s board of aldermen and a lengthy term as president of Temple Emanu-El. During a particularly tumultuous time for the temple, Ullman was asked to become the congregation’s rabbi, a rare if not unprecedented act in American Judaism. Ullman also served on local and state commissions that sought to reform economic and political processes within the state. … His poetic essay "Youth" inspired vision and confidence in [Japan] after World War II … [and] entered the psyche and culture of America.
 * … trace Ullman’s American journey chronologically, first as a young man assisting his father in a grocery business in Port Gibson, then as a soldier for the Confederacy. Ullman survived injuries he suffered during the Civil War, returned to Port Gibson, and soon moved to the larger city of Natchez, where he established a business, entered the civic and religious life of the community, and married and began a family. Ullman was respected and rewarded for his service to the community, particularly during periods when deadly "fevers" moved up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Natchez. As many abandoned the unhealthy city, Ullman remained to run his and others’ businesses, to provide religious services for the temple congregation, and to serve as a civic leader. Ullman was elected a city alderman and was appointed to the city’s board of education. The black, as well as the white, community found him always impartial and fair, a rare attitude for that time and community.
 * Margaret E. Armbrester, author of Samuel Ullman and "Youth": The Life, The Legacy (1993), for the Virtual Tour of the Samuel Ullman Museum, University of Alabama

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 horror/thriller film about a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer who skins and butchers his victims. To better understand the motives of the killer, she attempts to get inside his mind with the help of an imprisoned psychopath, with whom she plays a deadly psychological game of cat-and-mouse.
 * Directed by Jonathan Demme. Written by Ted Tally, based on the novel by Thomas Harris.

To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.(taglines)

Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb

 * Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.

Dialogue

 * Jack Crawford: Be very careful with Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Chilton at the asylum will go over all the physical procedures used with him. Do not deviate from them for any reason whatsoever. And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head. Just do your job, but never forget what he is.
 * Clarice Starling: And what is that?
 * [cut to Clarice's first trip to the psychiatric prison]
 * Dr. Chilton: Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.
 * Dr. Chilton: Crawford is very clever, isn't he, using you?
 * Clarice Starling: What do you mean, sir?
 * Dr. Chilton: A pretty young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And, oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak.
 * Dr. Chilton: A pretty young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And, oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak.

 * Agent Starling: I graduated from UVA, Doctor. It's not a charm school.
 * Chilton: Good. Then you should be able to remember the rules. Do not touch or approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper. No pencils or pens. No staples or paperclips in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier. If he attempts to pass you anything, do. not. accept. it. - Do you understand me?
 * Agent Starling: Yes, I understand, sir.
 * Chilton: I'm going to show you why we insist on such precautions. On the evening of July 8, 1981, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the dispensary. His mouthpiece and restraints were removed for an EKG. When the nurse leaned over him, he did this to her. [pulls out photo] The doctors managed to reset her jaw, more or less. Saved one of her eyes … his pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue.

 * Clarice Starling: Excuse me. Excuse me, gentlemen. You officers and gentlemen, listen here now. There's things we need to do for her. I know that y'all brought her this far and her folks would thank you if they could for your kindness and your sensitivity, but now please go on now and let us take care of her. Go on now. Thank you. Thank you.
 * Jack Crawford: [on the phone] OK, good. Yeah, that's right. Elk River. Stand by for transmission.

 * Hannibal Lecter: You're not real FBI, are you?
 * Clarice Starling: I'm still in training at the Academy.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Jack Crawford sent a trainee to me?
 * Clarice Starling: Yes, I'm a student. I'm here to learn from you. Maybe you can decide for yourself whether or not I'm qualified enough to do that.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Mmm. That is rather slippery of you, Agent Starling. Sit, please. Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say?
 * Clarice Starling: He said, "I can smell your cunt."
 * Hannibal Lecter: I see. I, myself, cannot. You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps … but not today.
 * Clarice Starling: Did you do all those drawings, Doctor?
 * Hannibal Lecter: Ah. That is the Duomo seen from the Belvedere. You know Florence?
 * Clarice Starling: All that detail just from memory, sir?
 * Hannibal Lecter: Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.

 * Hannibal Lecter: Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though, about yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.
 * Clarice Starling: Go, Doctor.
 * Hannibal Lecter: What is your worst memory of childhood?
 * Clarice Starling: The death of my father.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Tell me about it and don't lie, or I'll know.
 * Clarice Starling: He was a town marshal, and... one night, he surprised two burglars coming out the back of a drugstore. They shot him.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Was he killed outright?
 * Clarice Starling: No, he was very strong, he lasted more than a month. My mother died when I was very young, so... my father had become the whole world to me, and, when he left me, I had nothing. I was ten years old.
 * Hannibal Lector: You're very frank, Clarice. I think it would be quite something to know you in private life.
 * Clarice Starling: Quid pro quo, Doctor.
 * Hannibal Lector: So tell me about Miss West Virginia. Was she a large girl?
 * Clarice Starling: Yes.
 * Hannibal Lector: Big through the hips? Roomy?
 * Clarice Starling: They all were.
 * Hannibal Lector: What else?
 * Clarice Starling: She had an object deliberately inserted into her throat. Now, that hasn't been made public yet. We don't know what it means.
 * Hannibal Lector: Was it a butterfly?
 * Clarice Starling: Yes. A moth. Just like the one we found in Benjamin Raspail's head an hour ago. Why does he place them there, Doctor?
 * Hannibal Lecter: The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis, or pupa, and from thence into beauty. Our Billy wants to change, too.

 * Hannibal Lecter: [about "Buffalo Bill"] What a naughty boy he is! Do you know why he's called 'Buffalo Bill'? Please tell me - the newspapers won't say.
 * Clarice Starling: Well, it started as a bad joke in Kansas City homicide. They said, 'this one likes to skin his humps.'
 * Hannibal Lecter: Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? Enthrall me with your acumen.
 * Clarice Starling: It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims.
 * Hannibal Lecter: I didn't.
 * Clarice Starling: No. No, you ate yours.

 * Hannibal Lecter: You're so ambitious, aren't you? You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube, with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What is your father dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? Oh and how quickly the boys found you … all those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars … while you could only dream of getting out … getting anywhere … getting all the way to the FBI.
 * Clarice Starling: You see a lot, doctor. But can you point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you – why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to...
 * Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. [He approaches the glass and lets go with a slurping sound.] You fly back to school now, little Starling. [He turns his back on her and speaks in a whisper] Fly, fly, fly. Fly, fly, fly.
 * Note: bolded sentence ranked #21 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

 * Hannibal Lecter: Jack Crawford is helping your career, isn't he? Apparently he likes you, and you like him too.
 * Clarice Starling: I never thought about it.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Do you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older, but do you think he imagines encounters, exchanges, fucking you?
 * Clarice Starling: That doesn't interest me, Doctor, and frankly, it's … it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Not anymore.

 * Clarice Starling: What did you mean by transformation, doctor?
 * Hannibal Lecter: I've been in this room for eight years now, Clarice. I know they will never, ever let me out while I'm alive. What I want is a view. I want a window where I can see a tree, or even water. I want to be in a federal institution, far away from Dr. Chilton.
 * Clarice Starling: What did you mean by fledgling killer? Are you saying that he's killed again?
 * Hannibal Lecter: I'm offering you a psychological profile of Buffalo Bill based on the case evidence. I'll help you catch him, Clarice.
 * Clarice Starling: [She rises] You know who he is, don't you? Tell me who decapitated your patient, doctor.
 * Hannibal Lecter: All good things to those who wait. I've waited, Clarice. But how long can you and old Jackie boy wait? Our little Billy must already be searching for that next special lady.

 * Clarice Starling: If your profile helps us capture Buffalo Bill in time to save Catherine Martin, the Senator promises you a transfer to the VA Hospital at Oneida Park, New York with a view of the woods nearby. Maximum security still applies, of course. You'd have reasonable access to books. Best of all, though, one week of the year, you'd get to leave the hospital and go here - [She produces a map] Plum Island, every day of that week, you may walk on the beach. You may swim in the ocean for up to one hour. Under SWAT team surveillance, of course. And there you have it...If Catherine Martin dies, you get nothing.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming.
 * Clarice Starling: That's only part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful …
 * Hannibal Lecter: Terns? If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" for us too. Quid pro quo – I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? [pause] Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.
 * Clarice Starling: Go, doctor.

 * Hannibal Lecter: Billy is not a real trans-sexual, but he thinks he is. He tries to be. He's tried to be a lot of things, I expect.
 * Clarice Starling: And you said that I was very close to the way we would catch him. What did you mean, doctor?
 * Hannibal Lecter: There are three major centers for trans-sexual surgery: Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, and Columbus Medical Center. I wouldn't be surprised if Billy had applied for sex reassignment at one or all of them, and been rejected.
 * Clarice Starling: On what basis would they reject him?
 * Hannibal Lecter: Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a trans-sexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.

 * [Buffalo Bill is holding Catherine Martin hostage in a hole in his basement]
 * Buffalo Bill: [to his dog Precious] It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
 * Catherine Martin: Mister … my family will pay cash. Whatever ransom you're asking for, they pay it.
 * Buffalo Bill: It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again. [to his dog, Precious] Yes, it will, Precious, won't it? It will get the hose!
 * Catherine Martin: Okay … okay … okay. Mister, if you let me go, I won't – I won't press charges, I promise. See, my mom is a real important woman … I guess you already know that.
 * Buffalo Bill: Now it places the lotion in the basket.
 * Catherine Martin: Please! Please, I wanna go home! I wanna go home, please!
 * Buffalo Bill: It places the lotion in the basket.
 * Catherine Martin: I wanna see my mommy! Please, I wanna see my …
 * Buffalo Bill: Put the fucking lotion in the basket!

 * Senator Martin: Dr. Lecter. I brought an affidavit guaranteeing your new rights. You want to read it before I sign.
 * Hannibal Lecter: I won't waste your time or Catherine's time bargaining for petty privileges. Clarice Starling and that awful Jack Crawford have wasted far too much time already. I only pray they haven't doomed the poor girl. Let me help you now and I will trust you when it's all over.
 * Senator Martin: You have my word... [An aide is poised to take notes]
 * Hannibal Lecter: Buffalo Bill's real name is Louis Friend. I met him just once. He was referred to me in April or May 1980 by my patient Benjamin Raspail. They were lovers, you see. But Raspail had become very frightened. Apparently, Louis had murdered a transient and done things with her skin.
 * Senator aide: We need his address and a physical description.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Tell me, Senator, did you nurse Catherine yourself?
 * Senator Martin: What?
 * Hannibal Lecter: Did you breast-feed her?
 * Krendler: Now, wait a minute …
 * Senator Martin: Yes, I did.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Toughened your nipples, didn't it?
 * Krendler: You son of a bitch!
 * Hannibal Lecter: Amputate a man's leg, and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?
 * Senator Martin: Take this thing back to Baltimore!
 * Hannibal Lecter: Five foot ten, strongly built, about 180 pounds; hair blonde, eyes pale blue. He'd be about 35 now. He said he lived in Philadelphia, but may have lied. That's all I can remember, mum, but if I think of any more, I will let you know. Oh, and Senator, just one more thing: love your suit.

 * Officer Murray: [about Hannibal Lecter] Is it true what they're saying, he's some kinda vampire?
 * Clarice Starling: They don't have a name for what he is.

 * Hannibal Lecter: People will say we're in love. [He clucks at her with his tongue] Anthrax Island. That was an especially nice touch, Clarice. Yours?
 * Clarice Starling: Yes.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Yeah. That was good. Pity about poor Catherine, though. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
 * Clarice Starling: Your anagrams are showing, doctor. 'Louis Friend?' Iron Sulfide. also known as fool's gold.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Oh Clarice, your problem is, you need to get more fun out of life.
 * Clarice Starling: You were telling me the truth back in Baltimore, sir. Please continue now.
 * Hannibal Lecter: I've read the case files. Have you? Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages.
 * Clarice Starling: Then tell me how.
 * Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice: simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius, "Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?" What does he do, this man you seek?
 * Clarice Starling: He kills women.
 * Hannibal Lecter: No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what needs does he serve by killing?
 * Clarice Starling: Anger, social acceptance, and, uh, sexual frustration …
 * Hannibal Lecter: No, he covets. That's his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer, now.
 * Clarice Starling: No. We just …
 * Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?

 * Hannibal Lecter: No! I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And …?
 * Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Not "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
 * Clarice Starling: Early, still dark.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
 * Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise.
 * Hannibal Lecter: What was it?
 * Clarice Starling: It was … screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice.
 * Hannibal Lecter: What did you do?
 * Clarice Starling: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.
 * Hannibal Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see?
 * Clarice Starling: Lambs. And they were screaming.
 * Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs?
 * Clarice Starling: And they were screaming.
 * Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away?
 * Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I … I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
 * Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?
 * Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice?
 * Clarice: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water, and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but … he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
 * Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
 * Clarice Starling: They killed him.
 * Hannibal Lecter: You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
 * Clarice Starling: Yes.
 * Hannibal Lecter: And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you? You think if Catherine lives, you won't wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the lambs.
 * Clarice Starling: [choking up] I don't know. I don't know.
 * Hannibal Lecter: Thank you, Clarice. Thank you.
 * Clarice Starling: Tell me his name, Doctor.
 * Hannibal Lecter: … Dr. Chilton, I presume. I think you know each other.
 * Dr. Chilton: Okay. Let's go.
 * Clarice Starling: It's your turn, Doctor.
 * Dr. Chilton: Out!
 * Clarice Starling: Tell me his name!
 * Boyle: I'm sorry, ma'am. We've got orders. We have to put you on a plane. Come on, now.
 * [Chilton and the guards start leading Clarice out]
 * Hannibal Lecter: Brave Clarice. You will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won't you?
 * Clarice Starling: Tell me his name, Doctor!
 * Hannibal Lecter: Clarice, your case file. [their hands touch briefly] Goodbye, Clarice.

 * Ardelia Mapp: Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random – like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter."
 * Clarice Starling: "Desperately random." What does he mean?
 * Ardelia Mapp: Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here …?
 * Clarice Starling: But there is no pattern, or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order.
 * Ardelia Mapp: Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down.
 * Clarice Starling: Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from … Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why?
 * Ardelia Mapp: 'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down.
 * Clarice Starling: What did Lecter say about … "first principles"?
 * Ardelia Mapp: Simplicity …
 * Clarice Starling: What does this guy do? He "covets". How do we first start to covet?
 * Ardelia Mapp: "We covet what we see …"
 * Clarice Starling: "… every day."
 * Ardelia Mapp: Hot damn, Clarice.
 * Clarice Starling: He knew her.

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 * Hannibal Lecter: [on telephone] Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?
 * Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter?
 * Hannibal Lecter: Don't bother with a trace, I won't be on long enough.
 * Clarice Starling: Where are you?
 * Hannibal Lecter: I have no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world's more interesting with you in it. So you take care now to extend me the same courtesy.
 * Clarice Starling: You know I can't make that promise.
 * Hannibal Lecter: I do wish we could chat longer, but … [eyeing Dr. Chilton] I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
 * Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter? … Dr. Lecter? … Dr. Lecter? … Dr. Lecter? …

Taglines

 * To enter the mind of a killer, she must challenge the mind of a madman.
 * Prepare yourself for the most exciting, mesmerising and terrifying two hours of your life!
 * When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
 * May The Silence Be Broken!!
 * Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. – Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer.

Cast

 * Anthony Hopkins – Dr. Hannibal Lecter
 * Jodie Foster – Clarice Starling
 * Anthony Heald – Dr. Frederick Chilton
 * Kasi Lemmons – Ardelia Mapp
 * Ted Levine – Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb
 * Scott Glenn – Jack Crawford
 * Diane Baker – Senator Ruth Martin
 * Brooke Smith – Catherine Martin
 * Danny Darst – Sergeant Tate
 * Stuart Rudin – "Multiple" Miggs

About The Silence of the Lambs (film)

 * the lesbian community is under siege, we always try to present to the heterosexual community the idealized version, but I do not think that's a good way to do it, even though I can understand where it's coming from. ("Valerie Miner talked about the kinds of self-censorship she finds in her work when she starts thinking she should present only positive images of lesbians or working-class people.") Yes. In that poem and also in the poem "Night Voice" I do that. There's this whole controversy now over media images of lesbians and gays and bisexuals. It's brought out in movies like Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs where they are presented as killers. It comes up in the novels of P. D. James, where she has these criminals who are lesbians or gay men. And I hate that. But, at the same time, I want the dirty laundry to be out there, whether it's on the Mexican culture or the lesbian culture or the bisexual. And I'm not sure how you do that.
 * Gloria E. Anzaldúa interview in Backtalk: women writers speak out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * I thought The Silence Of The Lambs was an absolutely brilliant book. The easiest way for me to understand the huge success of the movie starts with what a great book Thomas Harris wrote to begin with. He created those characters for Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins and Ted Levine to bring to life. As a filmmaker, I had the delicious job of being the moviegoing audience's representative at the place where the film version was now going to happen. Of course, I had my own ideas about the strengths of the book and how best to visualize them for the screen. Same thing with Beloved. In Beloved, there was zero invention: We didn't have to fix anything in the book, no gaping holes, no problems that had to be solved. The film is very faithful to the book, because we were all so inspired by the book that we simply transferred that inspiration to the screen. Silence Of The Lambs was essentially the same situation, except for the ending. Thomas Harris ended the book in a very meditative, poetic sort of way. This being a movie, we needed something a little bit more galvanizing as a sign-off, so we came up with the phone call and a glimpse of Dr. Lecter following Dr. Chilton off into the Caribbean sunset.
 * Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Demme Scott Tobias, A.V. Club (October 23, 2002).

 * I thought that in that movie The Elephant Man, that he was the ultimate good doctor, just the greatest doctor of all. So my thinking was, what happens if the greatest doctor of all goes wrong?
 * Jonathan Demme "How Jodie Foster Fought for 'Silence of the Lambs' Role", Gwynne Watkins, YahooMovies (April 1, 2015).

 * It’s about one young woman trying desperately to save the life of another young woman. And in order to do that, she’s faced with the overwhelming obstacle of all these men
 * Jodie Foster "How Jodie Foster Fought for 'Silence of the Lambs' Role", Gwynne Watkins, YahooMovies (April 1, 2015).

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Susan Johnson (born 30 December 1959) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays.

Hungry Ghosts (1996)

 * Ah, you see, Rachel, only strivers know about the stealthiness of time. No matter how young they are.
 * Page 42.

 * She was devastatingly cruel about our home town and told an elaborate, embossed tale about how she made good her escape. She referred to it as 'The Planet Brisbane' and ridiculed its unpleasant combination of smug self-satisfaction and provincial defensiveness.
 * Page 46.

 * She walked and walked, daring to be happy, risking the wrath of the Gods. She raised her large smiling face to the sun and when she was not struck down, dared to hope for herself again.
 * Page 145.

 * 'Still got your eyes closed, Rach?' she called. 'You should have stayed in Brisbane where it's safe!'
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Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death (1969) is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic, it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from Absurdist perspectives, using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II, the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed, is the starting point.

Quotes

 * All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition printed in December 1991 by Dell, ISBN# 978-0-440-18029-6

 * This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.
 * Epigram

 * So it goes.
 * Recurring statement throughout the novel, on life, death, and mortal existence, based on what Tralfamadorians say whenever someone or something dies.

 * The smell of mustard gas and roses.
 * Repeated quote in various places in the novel to describe either a drunkard's breath or the smell of rotting corpses.

Chapter 1

 * "You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?" "No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?" "I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?'" What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

 * "I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby," I said. "The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot. And he's given a regular trial, and then he's shot by a firing squad." (pp. 4-5)

 * 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. (p. 11)

"What?" I said. "You were just babies in the war — like the ones upstairs!" I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood. "But you're not going to write it that way, are you." '''This wasn't a question. It was an accusation.''' "I — I don't know," I said. "Well I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed in wars. And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. So I held up my right hand and I made her a promise: "Mary," I said, "I don't think this book of mine is ever going to be finished. I must have written five thousand pages by now, and thrown them all away. If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne. "I tell you what," I said, "I'll call it The Children's Crusade." She was my friend after that.
 * "You were just babies then!" she said.
 * The wife of an old war buddy accusing the author, who is writing a book about the destruction by bombing of Dresden, Germany in World War II (pp. 14-15)

 * I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. (p. 18)

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"
 * 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.
 * Vonnegut, as narrator, addresses his publisher Seymour ("Sam") Lawrence directly about his book (p. 19)

 * I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. (p. 19)

 * And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. (pp. 21-22)

 * People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this: "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." It ends like this: "Poo-tee-weet?" (p. 22)

Chapter 2

 * Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that 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."
 * The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
 * Billy writing a letter to a newspaper describing the Tralfamadorians (p. 26-27)

 * As part of the gun crew, he had helped to fire one shot in anger — from a 57-millimeter antitank gun. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blowtorch thirty feet long. The flame left a black arrow on the ground, showing the Germans exactly where the gun was hidden. The shot was a miss. (p. 34)

 * Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. (p. 39)

Chapter 3

 * Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy's wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference." Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. (p. 60)

 * If you're ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob! (p. 67)

Chapter 4

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new. When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. '''The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.''' The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. '''Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.''' (pp. 74-75)
 * American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses, took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it. "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why." (pp. 76-77)
 * Billy licked his lips, thought a while, inquired at last: "Why me?"

 * All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. (p. 86)

 * "If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." (p. 86)

Chapter 5

 * There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
 * A Tralfamadorian explains a Tralfamadorian novel to Billy (p. 88)

 * The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. (p. 96)

 * [Eliot] Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy [Pilgrim] one time … He said that everything there was to know about life is in "The Brothers Karamazov," by Fyodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough anymore," said Rosewater. (p. 101)

 * She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all. (p. 102)

 * How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. (p. 105)

 * You know — 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. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.'" (p. 106)

But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes. The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn't look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought...: Oh, boy — they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time! And that thought had a brother: "There are right people to lynch." Who? People not well connected. So it goes. The visitor from outer space made a gift to Earth of a new Gospel. In it, Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels. So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. There couldn't possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought. The reader would have to think that too, since the Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was. And then, just before the nobody died, the heavens opened up, and there was thunder and lightning. The voice of God came crashing down. He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son, giving him the full powers and privileges of the Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity. God said this: From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections! (pp. 108-110)
 * It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space... [who] made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.

 * Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. (p. 122)

 * An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, 'There they go, there they go.'  He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book. (p. 125)

 * Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times. (p. 129)

Chapter 6

 * "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut," murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest. "Go take a flying fuck at the moon." (p. 147)

" He looked down at his bare feet, they were ivory and blue" pg 72

Chapter 8

 * Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. (p. 167)

 * "Did that really happen?" said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. She hadn't had even one baby yet. She used birth control. (p. 171)

 * “I’m not the only one who’s listening. God is listening, too. And on Judgment Day he’s going to tell you all the things you said and did. If it turns out they’re bad things instead of good things, that’s too bad for you, because you’ll burn forever and ever. The burning never stops hurting.” Poor Maggie turned gray. She believed that, too, and was petrified. Kilgore Trout laughed uproariously. A salmon egg flew out of his mouth and landed in Maggie’s cleavage. (p. 172)

"No." "The dog will look down, and all of a sudden he'll realize there's nothing under him. He thinks he's standing on thin air. He'll jump a mile." (p. 175)
 * "You ever put a full-length mirror on the floor, and then have a dog stand on it?" Trout asked Billy.

Chapter 9

 * Billy didn’t really have it. Rumfoord simply insisted, for his own comfort, that Billy had it. Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease. (p. 192)

 * 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. He kept silent until the lights went out at night, and then, when there had been a long silence containing nothing to echo, he said to Rumfoord, "I was in Dresden when it was bombed. I was a prisoner of war." (p. 193

 * Billy turned on his television set, clicking its channel selector around and around. He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little after eight o’clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder. So it goes. (pp. 199-200)

Chapter 10

 * My father died many years ago now—of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust. (p. 210)

 * "Poo-tee-weet?" (p. 215; closing words)

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