I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Everything we do has consequences.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.