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“Bog bust and bleed you, you grahzny bastards.”

I’m using that now

“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.”

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“An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, "There they go, there they go." He meant his brains.
That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.” Page 125
God I love this book.

The part where Billy is watching the war movie backwards. So simple and silly yet struck me very powerfully. Page 74

“But sleep would not come. Tears came instead. They seeped. Billy turned on the Magic Fingers, and he was jiggled as he wept.”

“But nor do I judge the immigrant who says honestly and plainly: I don't love this country, don't love any country, patriotism being the property of an entirely different kind of life than luck has given me; I live here because it will always be safer to live on the launching side of the missiles. I live here because I am afraid.”

“that the same world in which you can buy avocados all year round… is the world in which an insignificant group of people you'll never meet simply have to die… It is not without reason that the most powerful nations on earth won't intervene to stop a genocide but will happily bomb one of the poorest countries on the planet to keep a shipping lane open.” By

“So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.” In reference to the 24 hour news cycle.

Did the author come up with that because it’s fire.

Orgy porgy