We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like,…

Kurt Vonnegut
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We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. ✨ KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
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