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I urge you to please notice when you are happy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
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