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you didn’t do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.
Loves a secret, has to tell it or you won’t know he has it.
People think the really bad ones are something special, but they’re not,”
“Psycho killers and rapists, they never ruin as many lives as a man like Corbell does.
“Conspiracy theory’s got to be simple. Sense doesn’t come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever’s supposed to be behind the conspiracy.”
It’s how you behave makes the difference.
Because people who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were.
That evil wasn’t glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.
