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Influential Author [Kurt] Vonnegut Dies at 84
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A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view.
He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.
"He was a man who combined a wicked sense of humor and sort of steady moral compass, who was always sort of looking at the big picture of the things that were most important,"...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9531144
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The bright side is that many who have left us, left something through which we can know them. I encourage everyone to read some of Kurt Vonnegut's works. I was lucky to have a teacher who turned me on to his writing when I was very young. We need more people like Kurt Vonnegut.
-- Mark Frankenberg
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