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Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007

Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut on happiness

Playboy interview (1973)

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