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“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”
Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.9, Granta Books
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“Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“The war against terrorism is one we must win.”
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“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”
Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf
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“Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.”
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“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”
Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.10, Vintage
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“A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.”
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“The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.”