Source: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 8
“I wish I had been born a bird instead," he said.
"I wish we had all been born birds instead.”
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Kurt Vonnegut
,
book
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus (1990)
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“As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.”
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Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 20
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