I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible troubl…

Kurt Vonnegut
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1988). Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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