"Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?"

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Source : "May Doctors Help You to Die?". www.nybooks.com. October 11, 2012.

Marcia Angell

#Suffering Quotes #Medical Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.”
“The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.”
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.”
“The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!”
“Looking at something changes it.”

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