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 | “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ―Kurt Vonnegut Source/Notes: Knowing What's Nice, an essay from In These Times (2003) - Various interviews |
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| “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” ―Kurt Vonnegut Source/Notes: Palm Sunday: an autobiographical collage (Dell, 1982), p. 327 |
Kurt Vonnegut
Born: November 11, 1922
Died: April 11, 2007 (aged 84)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author, novelist, essayist
Bio: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical leftist intellectual.
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