A quote by Tom Robbins

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I was just there at The Firm as a stopover, to get the skills, I would have said at the time; this was not really me, I would have said, but it was a thin defense. How quickly I was becoming an icky person in these small, important moments. This is to say nothing of the actual impact of the work I was doing, which, I believe, was marginally useful ... See more
from I Felt Important
Britt Gage added
The perils on working for the wrong reasons
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of tem
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from On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf by Literary Hub
Anna B added
On the other hand, illness makes us adventurers, in language and imagination; we are pleased to abandon concision and coherence. Above all, so it seems as “On Being Ill” starts to mimic the shape of its own beginning, illness frees us to fall back on the pillows and give up pretending to the logical progression of our thoughts.
from On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf by Literary Hub

from I Felt Important