Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a no…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
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Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group

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