“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
All of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
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This is the only story of mine whose moral I know.
I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is:
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now:
Make love when you can.
It’s good for you.
– Kurt Vonnegut, Iowa City, 1966