"I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy."

-- Daniel D. Palmer

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“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.”

Source : 1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.
“Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.”
“I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking,”
“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”
“My biggest achievement is my children.”
“I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.”

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