The list of irritatingly misapplied clichés people utter would take me more hours to type out than I have left to live, but near the top is the conversational gambit “There are two kinds of people in this world…” There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who split the world into two kinds of people, and the ones who know that’s reductive and conversationally lazy. With this exception: There are two kinds of people in this world. People who can expect to, strive to, feel entitled to be happy. And people who cannot. The rest of the dichotomies are meaningless beside that one. Look
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