“Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.”

—  Dalton Trumbo, book Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun (1938)

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American screenwriter and novelist 1905–1976

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