"I think the hardest thing for anyone is accepting that other people are as real as you are." Zadie Smith

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...That’s it. Not using them as tools not using them as examples or things to make yourself feel better or things to get over or under. Just accepting that they are absolutely as real as you are and have all the same expectations and demands. And it’s so difficult that basically the only person that ever did it was Christ. The rest of us are very, very far behind.

From an interview in The Toronto Star.