"The patient is the one with the disease"

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Source : "The House of God". Book by Samuel Shem, September 7, 2010.

Samuel Shem

#Disease Quotes #Patient Quotes

“The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.”
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“I think the credit default swaps can take the place of the rating agencies who really have missed the ball in this procedure and are quite conflicted by the way the ratings are paid for. So, I would like to see credit default swaps become an evermore important way of understanding credit risk in the economy.”
“If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.”
“Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.321
“Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.”
“Lucas went even paler. â€œThen youâ€™re on the track to suicide,â€ he whispered. â€œTake my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. Youâ€™re already dead.”
“Prayer is not ever thing, but everything is by prayer.”

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