The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
Kurt VonnegutAlcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
Kurt VonnegutFor a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
Kurt Vonnegut