"Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155)."

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Source : Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

Mark Salzman

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“My idea was that if I loved to sing, I would just do it anywhere I could, and always go out and always try to learn and try to perform, and try to find opportunities. Little by little, I sort of built upon that idea.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.”
“I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things”

Source : "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.
“The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elishaâ€™s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.”
“We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.”

Source : R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India
“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”

Source : "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.
“I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.”
“I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.”

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