Anyone here like Kurt Vonnegut? Great interview

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

He smokes like a chimney.

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Webster: So you haven’t given up?


Vonnegut “Sure, I’ve given up.”


Webster: But you haven’t given up on the human race?


Vonnegut “Well, I’m smoking as much as I can.”


Webster: Damn, you’ve got to keep writing just to pay for those cigarettes. They’re nowhere near as inexpensive as they once were.


Vonnegut “That’s true. And I have to stay outdoors a lot, too, which isn’t good for me.”


Webster: Well at least that keeps you out of the bars, in New York at least.


Vonnegut “Who owns your paper?”


Webster: It’s owned by a family here in Spokane.


Vonnegut “So, it’s completely local. It’s not Murdoch.”


Webster: No, and that’s a good thing. We try to put out a straight newspaper rather than one that is like the Murdoch papers in the world.


Vonnegut “But make sure to call our soldiers over in Iraq ‘The Coalition,’ all right?”


Webster: You bet. Thanks for talking to me.

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Vonnegut “I’ve got a lawsuit against Brown & Willliamson now. Because I have been chain-smoking Pall Malls since I was 11. And on their package they promised to kill me.” (laughs)

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He's 82 now. From: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?id=1997