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When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

Michael Marshall Smith

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

Tags: objectivity, taking things personally

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About Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger.