I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature h…

Kurt Vonnegut
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. 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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