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I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
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It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.
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