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Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing...John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.
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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
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff B … ▶
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1997). Hocus Pocus, p.169, Penguin
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing...John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

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