"Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices."

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About Theodore Dalrymple

English writer, cultural critic, and retired physician known for essays on social policy, medicine, and culture. Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of Anthony Daniels.

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