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I love how John Steinbeck includes a character called John Steinbeck in this book

„The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt — and there is the story of mankind.”

now what in the hell cathy

„Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.”