“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

“Influential author Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84 after suffering brain injuries in a fall in New York…”
“…He likened himself to a flower, which having finished blooming, “has some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served”.
He did come out of semi-retirement to write the short story collection A Man Without a Country in 2006, saying that he had “drawn energy from my contempt for our president”.
Vonnegut said he was often surprised to have lived for so long, having been a heavy smoker.
He once joked: “I’m suing a cigarette company because on the package they promised to kill me, and yet here I am.”

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