"Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine."

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Source : Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Selzer

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“It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.”

Source : ""Living on Mir: An Interview with Dr. Shannon Lucid". Interview with Patrick Meyer, www.encyclopedia.com. March 1998.
“I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.”
“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.”
“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.142
“Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.”
“Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.”

Source : "Homosexuality, Hitler, and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" by Bryan Fischer, www.renewamerica.com. May 28, 2010.
“I do regard myself as very lucky.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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