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Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
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Arrogance, bullying, meanness – just try to be kind, it’s not difficult.
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Never picking up the check.
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My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
The inability to do things for myself.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I haven’t grown up.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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