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I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 11
Died: 2007
Died: April 14
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You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
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I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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