"Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)"

-- Mary E. Pearson

#Kind Quotes #Smooth Quotes #Feels Quotes

“When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.”
“Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?”
“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.”
“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”

Source : "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.
“Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.”
“War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.”
“A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.”

Source : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.239, The Floating Press
“When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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