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When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.

— Edward St. Aubyn

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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

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