"Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people."

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The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

— Edward Thomson