# Quote — Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

> This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

- Author: [Mordecai Richler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mordecai-richler.md)
- Book: [The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mordecai-richler/the-apprenticeship-of-duddy-kravitz.md)
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