Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. ✨ Kurt Vonne…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer (2011). Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing, p.42, Seven Stories Press
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.51, Infobase Publishing
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I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer (2011). Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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