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“His skin felt clammy, and his eyes felt like they had been put in wrong, while his skull gave him the general impression that…

— Neil Gaiman

“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through…

— Grace Paley

“In a chair in the far corner of the room, Uncle Eugene watched all the comings and goings. A first aid training dummy, Uncle…

— Lauren Carr

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was…

— Sarah Schulman

“Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see,…

— Colin Dexter

“The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled lights in…

— Joseph Heller

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him "poor Richard," been nothing better than…

— Jane Austen

“As the syringe was filled, Butch stepped up into the surgeon’s grille. Even as incapacitated as the cop was from the inhaling, he was…

— J.R. Ward

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no…

— John Steinbeck