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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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. – Kurt Vonnegut

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. – Harry A. Overstreet

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We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. – Cyril Connolly

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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