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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-10-05-vonnegut_x.htm

Vonnegut, on politics, presidents and librarians By Jacqueline Blais, USA TODAY

Music (especially the blues) cheers him, as do people who behave decently. Librarians, too — "not famous for their physical strength" — who resist having books removed from shelves and refuse to give names of people who have checked out certain books in the era of the Patriot Act.

"The America I loved," he writes, "still exists in the front desks of public libraries."

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