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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Kurt Vonnegut
Community, Soul, Library

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
Cancer, Lakes, Community
Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

Kurt Vonnegut
People, Community, Causes
"Thoughts of a Free Thinker". Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (May 26, 1974), as quoted in Kurt Vonnegut "Palm Sunday", 1981.

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