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“It takes a truly great man to see that he’s been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.” quote by Amy Lane — Download Open image

““It takes a truly great man to see that he’s been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.””

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“The point is, they have a public thing against the overweight and the underbeautiful. Those are my people there, Jared. Those are the people who pull the curtain and write the plays and make the costumes—those are the people who make the dream but who don’t live it on the front of the stage. Anyone who knocks those people is…

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“You do like me, don’t you? Even though I’m apparently communicatively handicapped and socially retarded?”

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“Whiskey to himself "God, please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting”

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“If you’re decent to people, you’ll usually find out they’re decent people, too.”

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