“It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.”
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It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.