If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of …

Kurt Vonnegut
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations, p.47, Melville House
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