Richard Selzer Quotes

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• The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
• Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea…
• You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
• 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…
• 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 Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid…
• Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
• 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…
• Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
• A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
• I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.
• I never intended to become a writer.
• The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

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