I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
("Slaughterhouse-Five")
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Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things he wept for were all abstractions, since his memory could furnish few faces or artifacts with which his imagination might fashion a passion play.
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This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
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