I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I…

Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Cat's Cradle: A Novel, p.98, Dial Press
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I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

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