"'Why should you do a job anyway? What's the incentive?' 'The incentive is to fight anarchy. That's all Man lives for. Reclaiming life from its natural muddle. Making patterns.' 'Patterns for what?' 'For the sake of patterns. To create meaning. What else is there?' 'And what about the things that won't fit into your patterns?' 'Discard them.'"
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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was a British-American writer.
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