human
No, of course not; you don't know the world--you don't know life--that's why you don't know what an unheard-of thing you're doing! What do you know about _me_? she thrust at her fiercely.
gpt
What do you _think_ about me?
human
I think you have had a hard time,
gpt
And what's that to you? Why's that your affair?
human
It's not exactly my affair, to be sure, Katie admitted;
gpt
Do you think I'm going to impose on you--just because you know so little? Why with all your cleverness, you're just a baby--when it comes to life! Shall I tell you what life is like? Her gaze narrowed and grew hard.
human
Life is everybody fighting for something--and knocking down everybody in their way. Life is people who are strong kicking people who are weak out of their road--then going on with a laugh--a laugh loud enough to drown the groans. Life is lying and scheming to get what you want. Life is not caring--giving up--getting hardened--I know it. I _loathe_ it.
gpt
And you! Here in a place like this--what do you know about it? Why you're nothing but an--outsider!
human
What are you doing it for?
gpt
I don't know, Katie replied simply.
human
At least until a minute ago I didn't know, and now I wonder if perhaps, without knowing it, I was not trying to make up for some of those people--for I fear some of them were friends of mine--who have gone ahead by kicking other people out of their way. Perhaps their kicks provided my laughs. Perhaps, unconsciously, it--bothered me.