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“It would’ve been impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation though, was a luxury I could never afford.”

“Ruler: ‘Why do you go about looking as you do?’

Me: ‘Because that’s the way I am.’”

This exchange took place in the 1930s.

In 1931:
“The sky was dark with millionaires throwing themselves out of windows.”