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“Everything is change”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems

“He says, There’s no clouds, with clouds in the background. He says, There’s no trees. I say, I’m looking at a tree right now. (The squirrel’s gravesite.) You can’t just talk about the weather anymore. There’s an urge to tell someone what’s happening, but the people who care know, and the people who don’t know don’t care.”
― Elisa Gabbert, Normal Distance

“Death by attrition. War of natural causes.”
― Elisa Gabbert, Normal Distance

“Is the practice of medicine a business or is it a vocation? Where does the balance lie between doing well and doing good? The hypocrisy of doctors—money and medicine are rarely far apart—has long been the stuff of satire and criticism. The dictionary definition of the word “vocation” talks of a “special urge” or of a “calling”—but there are many reasons why people choose to become doctors, and most of them have little to do with altruism. Doctors, of course, will all differ as to where they find a balance between money and morality, just as they will vary as to where they find a balance between compassion and scientific detachment, another tightrope they have to negotiate.”
― David Nott, War Doctor Surgery on the Front Line: