"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.“


-W. Somerset Maugham

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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

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