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I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
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About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.
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