"Humor is a way of coping with real trouble. … My next book [Slaughterhouse Five] is a comedy. It is about the largest massacre in the history of Europe."
— Kurt Vonnegut

January 1, 1970

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"Vonnegut: Humor to cope with suffering" by Marcia Abramson. The Michigan Daily (22 January 1969, page 2)