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What if, by labelling our patients damaged from the outset, we not only condemn them to a self-fulfilling prophecy, but have overlooked a potential finding of equal importance?

— Aminatta Forna

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How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world?

“When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.”

“What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.”

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.”

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