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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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. – 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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It isnt safe to sit in judgment upon another persons illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. – Mark Twain

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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 is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. – Martin Luther

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