That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enou…

Kurt Vonnegut
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.131, Infobase Publishing
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That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. ✨ Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, p.131, Infobase Publishing

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