"Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

C.E. Morgan

#Pain Quotes #Real Quotes #Ubiquity Quotes

“If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”
“The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.”

Source : Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1982). “Critical Essays: Hans Magnus Enzensberger”, p.74, A&C Black
“Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.”
“Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.”
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”
“all the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.”

Source : "Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989" by D. G. Caldi, ‎George D. Mostow, (p. 230), 1989.
“What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.”
“When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “The Devil Tree”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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