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Siddhartha Mukherjee has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
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It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny…
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History repeats, but science reverberates.
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Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
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Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
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One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
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This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical…
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In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high…
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It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster…
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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in…
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In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even…
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Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
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Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do…
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I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels…
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These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . .…
— Doris Grumbach
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Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
— Caitlin Moran
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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me,…
— Roland Barthes
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Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been…
— Naomi Wolf
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