“Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.”
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
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