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One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.
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'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
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The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
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