But people—the ordinary, the decent and basically honest—couldn’t get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.
“To him a thinking man’s job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect. It was not an easy job.”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
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