Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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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Smoking
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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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Illusion
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Be Yourself
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What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. – Carl Rogers

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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. – Charles R. Brown

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Be Yourself

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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Be Yourself

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. – André Berthiaume, Contretemps

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Debt is the worst poverty. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. – Stanley Kunitz

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Wisdom

I respect someones right to privacy and I want them to know it. – Terry Gross

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respect

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Havelock Ellis

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Music