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Indifference is not so much a gesture of looking away—of choosing to be passive—as it is an active disinclination to feel. Indifference shuts down the humane, and does it deliberately, with all the strength deliberateness demands. Indifference is as determined—and as forcefully muscular—as any blow. — Cynthia Ozick

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I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true. — Dorothy Parker