Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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John Fowles Quote
“The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.”
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