You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else. J. Michael Straczynski
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There are some people who would say that the world has not turned out the way it was supposed to. The world they thought they’d been promised by somebody or some group, something of that nature. But there are others who say, "Well, I got the world I deserve. And I got the life I deserve.

And I got the people I deserve." You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or anything of that nature, so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to

Source: Spiderman: One More Day

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