It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

Hugh Laurie
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In a very emotional article, Rebecca Solnit compared the physical pain of a car crash to the psychological pain that comes from witnessing a terrible accident. She wrote: I was driving home from lunch with Brendan and saw people running up the hill. I was feeling sleepy and I couldn't be sure what had happened so at first I didn't think anything of it. Then I saw people lying on the grass, and everything changed.

The next thing I knew my car had stopped and paramedics were at my door. The driver of the second car had died.

Source: The Gun Seller

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