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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
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“And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, ‘Kurt is up in heaven now.’ That’s my favorite joke.”

- Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut talks to readers about the meaning of life

Kurt Vonnegut is undeniably funny, and so is A Man Without a Country. But Vonnegut’s sort-of-memoir goes beyond wry witticism. He distills all that he has learned in his decades on this planet into this one short book. It’s a … Continue reading

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“2BRO2B” by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. plays with complex themes of aging and death in his 1962 short story “2BRO2B”

On the surface, 2BRO2B is an incredibly dark satire portraying a bleak future where death is militantly maintained by the government. As we are introduced to a futuristic society in which death and aging has been cured, and the population … Continue reading

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