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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Writers, says the speaker, rarely befriend people who are flawless: those without trouble, sorrow, illness or errors, and who carefully check their change. Such tidy self-sufficiency makes poor company for them. The remark suggests imperfect, struggling people are more interesting and lovable, with gentle humour about the change-counting.
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