Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the a…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1973). Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!, Dell
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