Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: August 25, 1949
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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with...
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