"Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti."

--

Paul Farmer

#Believe Quotes #Boston Quotes #People Quotes

“Television wasn't prestigious.”
“Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.”
“Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.”
“Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.”
“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.”
“For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.”

Source : Hilton Als (2013). “White Girls”, p.224, McSweeney's
“Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.”
“To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.”

Source : "Interview: Honest joker's charm offensive". Interview With Polly Toynbee, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2001.

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