"One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that."

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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

— Laozi