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That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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