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If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.
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Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
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We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
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