If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!
("Slaughterhouse-Five")
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
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