Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightenin…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Dell Books
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