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I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn__ have to write at all anymore if I didn__ want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don__ know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they__e through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn__ ask to be flowers and I didn__ ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five_I had a shutting-off feeling_that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .
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I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn__ have to write at all anymore if I didn__ want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don__ know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they__e through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn__ ask to be flowers and I didn__ ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five_I had a shutting-off feeling_that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

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