# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

> Slaughterhouse-Five has been turned
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> Into an opera by a young German,
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> And will have its premiere in Munich this June.
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> I’m not going there either.
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> Not interested.
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> I am fond of Occam’s Razor,
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> Or the Law of Parsimony, which suggests
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> That the simplest explanation of a phenomenon
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> Is usually the most trustworthy.
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> And I now believe, with David’s help,
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> That writer’s block is finding out
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> How lives of loved ones really ended
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> Instead of the way we hoped they would end
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> With the help of our body English.
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> Fiction is body English.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Timequake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake.md)
- Page: 46
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timequake#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake/slaughterhouse-five-has-been

## More from this book

> All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake/all-persons-living.md)

> Many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake/many-people-need.md)

> I asked Kilgore Trout for his ballpark opinion of John Wilkes Booth. He said Booth's performance in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on the night of Good Friday, April 14th, 1865, when he shot Lincoln and then jumped from a theater box to the stage, breaking his leg, was "the sort of thing which is bound to happen whenever an actor creates his own material."

p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake/i-asked-kilgore.md)