What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that th…

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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. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.144, Infobase Publishing
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