Kurt Vonnegut: ...critics wanted me squashed like a bug. And it wasn’t just that I had money all of a sudden, either.The hidden complaint was that I was barbarous, that I wrote without having made a systematic study of great literature, that I was no gentleman, since I had done hack writing so cheerfully for vulgar magazines—that I had not paid my academic dues. Paris Review: You had not suffered? Kurt Vonnegut: I had suffered, all right—but as a badly educated person in vulgar company and in a vulgar trade. It was dishonorable enough that I perverted art for money. I then topped that felony by becoming, as I say, fabulously well-to-do.
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