Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. ✨ Kur…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations, p.40, Melville House
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Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations, p.40, Melville House

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