I give you my word of honor that he is merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I’ve ever read. What I suspect is that it hurt too much, was no fun at all to be that good. You and I will never know.
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Kurt Vonnegut to John Casey on Breece D’J Pancake. Pancake, who killed himself in 1979, only ever published six stories in his lifetime, most in the Atlantic, and had six other published posthumously.
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