--- title: "1 Like Doctors Quotes By Ben Marcus" description: "1 Like Doctors quotes by Ben Marcus. Plus more from Ben Marcus and more Like Doctors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/ben-marcus-7492_death_like-most-doctors-the-fanciest-ones-he-s_1197181.jpg" --- > [“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were supposed to feel like death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/like-most-doctors-the-fanciest-ones-he-seemed-offensively-healthy-as/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/ben-marcus-7492_death_like-most-doctors-the-fanciest-ones-he-s_1197181.jpg) ## More by Ben Marcus > [To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/to-refrain-from-storytelling-is-perhaps-one-of-the-highest-forms-of/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/my-goal-with-whatever-i-m-working-on-is-to-lose-track-of-time/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/and-he-told-a-story-once-after-intercourse-to-the-person-who-had-just/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/terms-ben-marcus-the-1-false-map-scroll-caul-or-parchment-it-is/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“We can contain such secret misery, perversion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/we-can-contain-such-secret-misery-perversion/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/loud-people-have-thin-hollow-bones-they-can-be-broken-in-half-and/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/i-like-big-doses-of-grief-when-i-read-richard-yates-flannery-o-connor/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/this-first-to-understand-this-then-maybe-julian-was-impressed-the/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/who-is-setting-the-bar-for-what-you-call-accessibility-the-definition/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/people-are-considered-as-areas-that-resist-light-mistakes-in-the-air/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/the-true-elitists-in-the-literary-world-are-the-ones-who-have-become/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/together-we-were-something-less-which-felt-like-such-a-relief-to-not/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [“I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/i-prefer-men-who-don-t-fall-down-and-weep-who-absorb-a-blow-who-do/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/i-love-the-way-dates-in-a-text-make-us-think-that-truth-will-follow/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) > [Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-marcus/judaism-to-me-as-badly-as-i-practiced-it-what-i-ve-always-loved-about/) [Ben Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-marcus/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-doctors/ben-marcus/#itemlist", "name": "1 Like Doctors Quotes By Ben Marcus", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. 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