Early on, I developed the idea that the world was divided up into the real people and the fake people. And somehow, the fake people were the ones who got to run things; they were the ones who had all of the official power. They got to make up and enforce the rules. The fake people actually got to tell the real people what to do. And the things that they told them to do—how to talk, how to dress, how to eat, how to act, how to think and what to value were, just like they were, phony, lifeless and without real substance. Their goal seemed to be to prevent the real people from living their lives
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