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Kurt Vonnegut was a great American writer and social commentator.
His personal story is amazing - one of only seven American POWs to survive the bombing of Dresden in WWII, he witnessed and was subjected to unspeakable horrors, yet he emerged with an incredible sense of humanity.
Kurt also had a tremendous gift for satire...
Some Vonnegut quotes:
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." (Makes me think of Splum, LOL)
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
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