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They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
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What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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