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“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“but the worst thing about paranoia is that the only way to prove you’re not paranoid is to be proved right.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: “That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“Because people are always dependent upon other people, and we can’t ever really forgive one another for that.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“There are few words that are harder to explain than "loyalty." It's always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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