Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or on…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.187, Dial Press
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Bluebeard: A Novel, p.187, Dial Press

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