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Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than t

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. – Kurt Vonnegut

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes

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