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— Robert McKee"It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value."
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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.
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