Quotes by Richard Selzer - Page 1

I never intended to become a writer.
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Intended
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If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.
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Dry
Surgery
Quit
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Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
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Autopsy
Facts
Giving
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A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
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Doctors
Done
Operations
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The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.
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Healing
Human Body
Mill
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I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.
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Alive
Body
Healthy
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The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
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Cages
Heart
Theater
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The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
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Dream
Brain
Doe
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
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Technology
Flower
Medicine
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If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
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Diminish
Divine
Doctors
Malpractice
Might
Odor
Understood
Perhaps
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You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
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Body
Passion
Spirit
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
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Life
Names
Sea
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The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.
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Emotion
Giving
Tasks
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And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.
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Body
Scar
Soul
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You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.
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Agony
Echoes
Giving
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Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.
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Principles
Taken
Wine
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Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully conceived and written. The settings are wonderfully pictorial. There is no doubt in my mind that Cutting for Stone will endure in the permanent literature of our time.
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Brother
Cutting
Medicine
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The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.
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Country
Doctors
Practice Of Medicine
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