“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about w...

“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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

―

Kurt Vonnegut,

Mother Night

A quote from Mother Night

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Author Kurt Vonnegut once said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Vonnegut quote that’s just a throwaway line in the middle of one of his books, that says, ‘We are whatever we pretend to be.’”

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.

…

And yet another moral occurs to me now:

Make love when you can.

It’s good for you.

– Kurt Vonnegut, Iowa City, 1966

“We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we often end up by disguising ourselves from ourselves.”

I mean, you can only pretend to be something for so long before you become it.