Quotes
Authors
Siddhartha Mukherjee

"In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team."

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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“Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.”

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.238
“I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye write songs and get money from it. So I knew when I put my album out I could just be myself. Not saying I won't do a trap beat or rap over one, but that's just not what makes me. That's not all of CyHi.”
“There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”
“Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.”
“The human being who acts is the human being who lives.”

Source : "Theatre: A Way of Seeing". Book by Milly S. Barranger, p. 203, 2014.
“I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.”
“Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.”
“For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Apr 01, 2017

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