Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group
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Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Putnam Publishing Group

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