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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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