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“Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?” quote by Carson McCullers — Download Open image

“Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?”

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“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out…

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Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and…

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