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Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
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 name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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I'd rather have written Cheers than anything I've written.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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