You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
Azar NafisiTags: individuality life reading learning morality society novels insight sensitivity complexities issues self-righteousness
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
George OrwellTags: controversy issues
You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.
Andrew SolomonTags: future present judgment depression cognition troubles issues breakdown
The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.
F. Sionil JoséTags: women social prostitution poverty issues philippines
Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.
Sherrilyn KenyonTags: truth trust character issues
Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.
T.F. HodgeTags: beef peace excess diet opportunity quotes issues positivity network negativity confrontation struggles unhealthy
The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.
Carl CohenTags: justice prison experimentation issues benefits
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
Criss JamiTags: avoidance football problem issues running hiding defense running-away figurative field blind-spots evading
The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
E.M. ForsterTags: memory public-opinion importance issues relevance
You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks.
Lili St. CrowTags: sad issues under-the-bed
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