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— John Irving"I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have."
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.
— Boyd Rice
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