But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, bes…

Kurt Vonnegut
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But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.106, Seven Stories Press
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But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.106, Seven Stories Press

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