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Love What Lasts

A Drink With a Friend

CHAPTER

The Importance of Fakery

"This is why I recommend everybody grow something," he says. "It's because we become more of who remain to be when we grow stuff" A fake typically isolates the two or three most pleasant aspects of the real, blows them out of proportion and then sets aside all the difficult or vexing aspects of a thing. Fakes are generally only persuasive if they're not inspected. We don't learn to love any story for a long time; there's nothing worthy of close examination.

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