"In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning."

-- Suzanne Gordon

#Religious Quotes #Drama Quotes #Character Quotes

“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.”
“Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."”
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.”

Source : Song: Whateva Man, Album: Muddy Waters
“Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.”
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.”

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