"The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger."

-- William James Mayo

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“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”
“I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.”
“Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.”

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“It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.”
“Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A”
“It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.”
“We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?”
“if you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...”

Source : Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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