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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Jan 13, 2017 09:46AM

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“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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