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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

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The Captive Mind

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“My politics in a nutshell: let’s stop giving corporations and newfangled contraptions what they need, and get back to giving human beings what we need.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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“The secret ingredient in my books is, there has never been a villain.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

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“There’s only one rule I know of—Goddam it, you’ve got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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“And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they’ll always remember and love. Computers and TV don’t do that. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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“Although some graduating classes will have a “handful of celebrities” who move on to the national stage, he pointed out that most would find themselves “building or strengthening your communities. Please love that destiny, if it turns out to be yours—for communities are all that’s substantial about the world.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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