Colson WhiteheadWe never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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We seldom see people as they truly are. Instead, we make up the stories about them. We tell stories about them that they don’t even believe themselves. Some of the stories we tell are terrible, like when we say that someone is lying to us in an attempt to manipulate us or when we assume that someone is bad because of their actions in the past.
However, in most cases, our stories are not true at all. It’s only when we build up the story of someone to be something terrible that it becomes true.
Source: Zone One
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