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Tobias Wolff

"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."

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"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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