It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. …

Tony Kushner
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It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. ✨ Tony Kushner (2013). Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition, p.266, Theatre Communications Group
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It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. ✨ Tony Kushner (2013). Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition, p.266, Theatre Communications Group

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