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The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
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In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
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