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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

— Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

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