“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.”
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
“It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
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