“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
