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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
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Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
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I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
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