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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

(1922--)

U.S. novelist

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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IKON

[IKON] "ikonBoard, also spelled as IKN"

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[creature of habit] {n. phr.} A person who does things out of habit rather than by thought. * /Our boss is a creature of […]

out of town

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screw around

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(1852-1936) in letter to Teddy Roosevelt, 1917 God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.

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