#sea

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#down #feel #floor #high #high seas

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ↗

— Hippocrates

#diseases #extreme #remedies #very

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#disease #dismissed #first #hear #i

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#body #else #escaping #experiencing #freedom

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. ↗

— Hippocrates

#far #important #know #more #person

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#continent #dependent #enemy #get #grips

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. ↗

— Hippocrates

#important #know #more #person #sort

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#good #nothing #quite #sea #simple

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #forgotten #i #i see #live