Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. (David Mamet)

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

David Mamet

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