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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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Biography, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, Young-adult, and biology


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