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Jason McCracken
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And so I just sat in my white pantyhose and my red lipstick and I imagined myself a soldier in some far away land, searching for something beautiful to kill.
“I can think of one reason why I can’t escape comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut.
And it ain’t because my work is so indebted to his own.
It’s because Vonnegut was the same as me: another con artist ripping off the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
A bunch of people have talked shit about Céline.
I don’t blame them!
Besides being one of the best writers of the Twentieth Century AD, he was also a rabid anti-Semite who collaborated with the Nazis.
But I can’t judge!
I too have collaborated with Nazis!
I was published by Penguin Random House!”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
And it ain’t because my work is so indebted to his own.
It’s because Vonnegut was the same as me: another con artist ripping off the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
A bunch of people have talked shit about Céline.
I don’t blame them!
Besides being one of the best writers of the Twentieth Century AD, he was also a rabid anti-Semite who collaborated with the Nazis.
But I can’t judge!
I too have collaborated with Nazis!
I was published by Penguin Random House!”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
“I don’t blame anyone for getting addicted to their smartphones.
I only blame people for their terrible attempts at reviewing my work.
Vonnegut, Vonnegut, Vonnegut!
He invented the short sentence!
He invented the short paragraph!
He invented jokes!”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
I only blame people for their terrible attempts at reviewing my work.
Vonnegut, Vonnegut, Vonnegut!
He invented the short sentence!
He invented the short paragraph!
He invented jokes!”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
“They would fail. We would always fail. We weren’t built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn’t change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled…”
― All Flesh is Grass
― All Flesh is Grass
“I’m burnt out.
Donald J. Trump was elected to the Presidency of the United States!
So there’s really no point.
Stop hoping that books will save you.
Stop pretending.
Everyone else has.”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
Donald J. Trump was elected to the Presidency of the United States!
So there’s really no point.
Stop hoping that books will save you.
Stop pretending.
Everyone else has.”
― Only Americans Burn in Hell
“It had happened again. He had made everyone laugh by doing something silly, but he didn't know what it was, why it was so funny. His father would have said he ought to be a "wakeup," whatever that meant, but he hadn't been a wakeup, he had happily eaten a sausage sandwich that hadn't been a sausage sandwich. A piece of shit, they said it was, but how could he know what a piece of shit tasted like, when he had never eaten it before? What was so funny? He wished he knew; he hungered to know, to share in their laughter and understand. That was always the greatest sorrow, that he could never seem to understand.
His wide blue eyes filled with tears, his face twisted up in anguish and he began to cry like a small child, bellowing noisily, still wringing his hands together and shrinking away from them.”
― Tim
His wide blue eyes filled with tears, his face twisted up in anguish and he began to cry like a small child, bellowing noisily, still wringing his hands together and shrinking away from them.”
― Tim
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