Phil Klay I’d been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. – Phil Klay College Quotes Creative Quotes Decision Quotes English Quotes History Quotes Iraq Quotes Marines Quotes Runup Quotes Studying Quotes War Quotes Writing Quotes I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn’t just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines. If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped – unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.
Greg GiraldoLegal If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone’s legal issues. – Greg Giraldo
Mark Bonnar I spent the first 10 years of my career playing psychotic Scotsman. I’m still playing psychotic Scotsmen really, they’ve just become a bit funnier. – Mark Bonnar
DeathElisabeth Kubler-Ross It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Felix Hernandez When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don’t want to leave. You want to stay there forever. – Felix Hernandez
John James Audubon Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? – John James Audubon
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