Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

James Richardson
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Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines. This was said by the character Coriolanus in William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Coriolanus. The quote is very true in the world of politics. People who are trying to get ahead will often try to control others and make them do what they want.

Fantasy people can be just as bad as tyrants. People who are controlled by their imagination are not truly living their lives, since they are letting someone else write their script for them. For example, some people wish that they could fly like Superman all the time.

But the reality is that most people will never be able to do this, since it is impossible physically to make your body lighter than gravity at any given time.

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