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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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