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“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a story where the government ensures equal outcomes by handicapping people who are born with advantages such as intelligence, strength, or beauty.Kurt Vonnegut = U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (1922-2007)
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During the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut Jr was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge, and then incarcerated in Dresden, where he survived the Allied firebombing three stories underground in a meat locker where he worked.
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In his writing, Kurt Vonnegut often explored themes of free will, human nature, and the meaning of life.
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As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat's Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the frogs' croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us. (source)Kurt Vonnegut = U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (b. 1922)
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Kurt Vonnegut.† (source)
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE A Duty-dance with Death KURT VONNEGUT, JR. The cattle are lowing, The Baby awakes, But the little Lord Jesus No crying He makes.† (source)
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LATER, when he unwrapped Daisy's graduation present he found something that looked like a handmade book, with long pages covered in red construction paper and black letters spelling out Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.† (source)
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Dick was a reader of novels and especially admired Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.† (source)
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"And so it goes," Kurt Vonnegut wrote once upon a time, when I was at Johns Hopkins and susceptible to such easy, breezy sentiments.† (source)
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American publishers boast long lists of contemporary writers with international reputations, such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, E. L. Doctorow, and Pat Conroy—to name a few.† (source)
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In its tertiary stages, of course, it also produced unpleasant results, including loss of control of one's limbs (the sudden, spastic motions Kurt Vonnegut writes of in his 1973 Breakfast of Champions) and madness.† (source)
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—KURT VONNEGUT, Slaughterhouse Five WITHIN NINETY DAYS of the statue's dedication, each of the survivors' lives went its separate way.† (source)
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Those items sit atop two books: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.† (source)
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...Pudge has been deprived of many wonderful Culver Creek experiences, including but not limited to ... going out late at night and lying in the dewy soccer field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight. (source)Kurt Vonnegut = U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (b. 1922)
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Kurt Vonnegut was a prolific American writer known for his satirical and humorous works, such as the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.†Kurt Vonnegut = U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (1922-2007)
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