We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KV
Kurt VonnegutMother Night (1961), introduction
About Kurt Vonnegut
American novelist, author of Slaughterhouse-Five. (1922-2007)
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- I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'Knowing What's Nice, essay in In These Times (2003)
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Hocus Pocus (1990)
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2013)
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- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
- We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.John F. Kennedy
- I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.Harry S. Truman
- We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are not heroes, they just don't know where to look.Ronald Reagan
- Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.Barack Obama
- I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.Barack Obama
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