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Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.
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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
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