“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
