"Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me."

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I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

— Wallace Shawn