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“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

Kurt Vonnegut Cat S Cradle

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“It is virtually impossible to harm a Timex watch. For some reason, the less you pay for a watch, the surer you can be that it will never stop.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 208

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“I suppose that’s really what so many American women are complaining about these days: They find their lives short on story and overburdened with epilogue.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 244

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“And guess what? You’ve seen that fence with the watchtowers. Do you honestly believe that fence is ever coming down?”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 265

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“I give my word of honor: I had not the slightest inkling of what the trouble might be.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 71

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“I have this trick for dealing with all my worst memories. I insist that they are plays. The characters are actors. Their speeches and movements are stylized, arch. I am in the presence of art.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 94

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“That is the second story I have told about Celia which ends with her fleeing barefoot. History repeats itself.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 207

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“The community was to be ashamed of nothing. Father was to be ashamed of everything. My father, the master of so many grand gestures and attitudes, turned out to be as collapsible as a paper cup.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 106

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“Father once said to me when he was an old man, after he had spent two years in prison, after he and Mother had lost all their money and art treasures in a lawsuit, that his greatest disappointment in life was that he had never been a soldier. That was almost the last illusion he had, and there might have been some substance to it—that he had been born to serve bravely and resourcefully on a battlefield.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 20

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“The late twentieth century will go down in history, I’m sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. My own brother came home from New York City—bombed on Darvon and Ritalin and methaqualone and Valium, and God only knows what all.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 216

Book:Deadeye Dick

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“They had jumped ship in order to escape military conscription at home, and because the streets of America were paved with gold. They spoke no English.”

Kurt Vonnegut Page 16

Book:Deadeye Dick

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