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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.
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We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
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Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.
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