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Mother Night
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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“She swallowed hard, shed some tears. Then she gathered energy from all over her ruined body, even from her toes and fingertips. At last she had accumulated enough to whisper this complete sentence: 'How did I get so old?”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
― Slaughterhouse-five
― Slaughterhouse-five
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