...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings …

Kurt Vonnegut
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Mother Night: A Novel, p.160, Dial Press
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Mother Night: A Novel, p.160, Dial Press

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