Poor Anthony must never have taken into account these sound words from Kurt Vonnegut in his novel "Mother Night" : "we are who we pretend to be."

可怜的安东尼一定是从未思考过那些来自库尔特·冯内古特(Kurt Vonnegut)在其小说《母亲之夜》(Mother Night)中的珠玑之言：“我们就是我们假装成为的那种人。”

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“Oh God, this is a calamity for American literature, ” Kurt Vonnegut said on learning of Joseph Heller’s death in 1999.

当库尔特·冯内古特（Kurt Vonnegut ）[1]在1999年得知约瑟夫·海勒（Joseph Heller）去世的消息时说道“上帝，这是美国文学界的一大损失。”

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Oh, and somebody's just told me that the great, great Kurt Vonnegut has died.

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Is your understanding of help helped by banal quotations from Kurt Vonnegut and the Dumfries and Galloway Standard?

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Likewise, Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut summered close to Wainscott Beach, fetching supplies every day from the doll's-house-sized Sagaponack General Store.

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