"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

#Past Quotes #Long Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.”

Source : Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.157, Univ of California Press
“In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.”
“The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.”
“Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”
“Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.”
“People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”
“Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.”

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