"It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!"

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Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

— Vaclav Havel