Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Denise Holton, Chapter 21, p. 231
2000s, The Rescue (2000)
“My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.”
On difficulties with women, as quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84" by Dinitia Smith in The New York Times (11 April 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html <br class="br">Various interviews
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