"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."

-- Shana Alexander

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“Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination”
“I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."”
“Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.”
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”
“I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.78, Penguin
“Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.”
“A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.”

Source : Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press

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