old-fashioned 語錄

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：The world doesn’t make sense anymore. I mean, it’s on fire. The rich don’t give a shit. Poor kids are cannon fodder. Integrity is a punch line. Trust is just a name on a bank.

：Look, if that’s all true, then now is when they most need someone like you.

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Mr.Tully, for most people, sex is 99% friction and one percent goodwill. Call me old-fashioned, but I place value on physical intimacy.

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There’s nothing new in human experience, Mr.Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man’s every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.

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The steps you take to avoid your fate are the very steps that lead you to it, but that’s just a literary conceit. In real life, your history doesn’t have to dictate your destiny.