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    This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    Andrews: Do you love her?
    Peter: A normal human being couldn’t live under the same roof with her without going nutty. She’s my idea of nothing!
    Andrews: I asked you a simple question. Do you love her?
    Peter: Yes! But don’t hold it against me. I’m a little screwy myself.
    Robert Riskin (1897–1955)