Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was l…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. ✨ Cat's Cradle. Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.
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Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. ✨ Cat's Cradle. Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.

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