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“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.”
― The Constant Gardener
― The Constant Gardener
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
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