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The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

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To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy—for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

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It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

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The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

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