It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to th…

V. S. Naipaul
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ✨ The floating man by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.
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