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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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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
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Unhappy failures need not apply.
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
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My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
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