Kurt Vonnegut
From an interview with Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller:
PLAYBOY: What are you working on, Kurt?
VONNEGUT: On a divorce. Which is a full-time job. Didn’t you find it a full-time job?
HELLER: Oh, it’s more than a full-time job. You ought to go back and read that section in No Laughing Matter on the divorce. I went through all the lawyers. But yours is going to be a tranquil one, you told me.
VONNEGUT: It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It’s like a head-on collision every time. It’s supposed to be a surprise but it’s commonplace. Deliver your line about never having dreamed of being married.
HELLER: It’s in Something Happened: ‘’I want a divorce; I dream of a divorce. I was never sure I wanted to get married. But I always knew I wanted a divorce.'’
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(From Elegant Variation)
