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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Carson McCullers
“Next to music, beer was best.”
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

George Orwell
“Sanity is not statistical.”
George Orwell, 1984

Dalton Trumbo
“ The guys in the saloons shoving free ones across the bar and saying happy new year and many more of them kid you been a good customer have one on the house happy new year and the hell with the prohibitionists some day the bastards are going to give us trouble. The girls from the hash houses and the girls from the hotels and the guys swarming out of dirty little apartment bedrooms and music and dancing and smoke and somebody with the ukulele and have another and the feeling of being lonesome that everybody has inside him and people bouncing against you and off you and have another one and a girl passing out at the bar and a fight and happy new year.”
Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Betty  Smith
“People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.”
Betty Smith

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