Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
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Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."[From the preface.]

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bagombo Snuff Box
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