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Writing, real writing, has very little to do with so-called typical behavior. It must be whittled down from our familiar spheres of reference to what the person actually is and does; in good writing, no person is "typical."

— Shulamith Hareven The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

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