"She had been in situations like this, where……" — Max Barry
"She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute."
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13 Quotes by Max Barry
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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
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every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
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