It Was Always Obvious. Always (A Quote)

"Doctors confronting a new epidemic caused by a highly fatal infectious agent are much like firefighters confronting a fire. Early, aggressive action pays off, whereas slow, passive action leads to massive destruction."

Dr. Donald P. Francis Journal of Public Health Policy 2012
Francis was a CDC Epidemiologist during the AIDS crisis.

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"He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that; whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain."

Alice Hoffman, The River King, novel

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"Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible."

Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse, novel

Unrequited

     


      It is enough for me
      That I hurt you
      And never to forgive 
      The fault
      That let me love you
      With no thought of return
         Christopher Mahon


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 "The grandest ride in America was the St. Charles streetcar. You could catch the old green-painted, lumbering iron car under the colonnade of the Pearl and for pocket change travel on the neutral ground down arguably the most beautiful street in the western world. The canopy of live oaks over the neutral ground created a green-gold tunnel as far as the eye could see."

James Lee Burke The Tin Roof Blowdown, novel.

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"The poet is usually the best reporter, for he is an observer not merely accurate but imaginative, self trained to see subtle suggestions, relations and similarities."

Christopher Morley introduction to Niagara Falls essay by Rupert Brooke in Modern Essays

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    "And one who has never gone into the abyss of his own nature and come back with an emblem of shame and glory-- that is, a true work of art-- to show the world, need not envy the artist his role."

    R.V. Cassil That Blue-Eyed Darling Nathaniel essay, in Horizon, summer 1966