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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
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Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
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Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
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I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
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