A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it. - Levi Miller

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Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. ― Patricia Briggs

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I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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