Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.
("Slaughterhouse-Five")
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When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were the shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so that they would never hurt anybody ever again.Kurt Vonnegut
The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.
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You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment.
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