Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
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Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation.
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