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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-11-05:

"Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown and Williamson Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me.

"But I am now eighty-one and a half!!!!

"Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, in the article False Advertising, printed in the magazine In These Times.