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“people who insisted that it was their Constitutional right to keep military weapons in their homes all looked forward to the day when they could shoot Americans who didn’t have what they had, who didn’t look like their friends and relatives, in a sort of open-air shooting gallery we used to call in Vietnam a “Free Fire Zone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world, Ono, was a world Gisaburo knew how to value.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“One man told me that literacy made it a lot more fun for him to masturbate.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus