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You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
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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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People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
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