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Quote by Martin Scorsese
I know basically good people who do bad things; it’s simple.
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The quote separates a person’s basic character from a particular action. Someone can be generally good while still doing something wrong. Calling this “simple” stresses that the contradiction is not difficult to understand: people are not defined entirely by their worst behavior.
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