Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahe…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Player Piano, p.236, Dial Press
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Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2009). Player Piano, p.236, Dial Press

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