Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Michael Greenberg:

Most people are disturbed when an experience they've had is told for them -- and the closer the person is to you, the more he or she is apt to feel wronged.  What captures their attention is not the scrupulous portrait you've drawn, but rather the unpleasantness of seeing themselves as a manipulated object in the drama of their own life.

Beg, Borrow, Steal, p. 205-206

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