And it was back in the mid-1980s and as I point out in a piece that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then we had the impression that so much of the excessive aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Every view and every object I studied attentively by viewing them again and again on every side for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
The moment of inspiration can come from memory or language or the imagination or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in of course and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.