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Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
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