He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a pa…

Kurt Vonnegut
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He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.209, Dial Press
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