Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

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The experience of life can be coloured by books, plays, and the cinema. The real world is not quite as it appears on the screen or on the page. While these sources of information can be very helpful, they are often incomplete. Instead, there are some truths that only come from being in the world.

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