"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that……" — Shana Alexander
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
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Shana Alexander
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22 Quotes by Shana Alexander
Shana Alexander has 22 quotes on this site.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for…
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the…
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain…
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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where…
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Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
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A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from…
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The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's…
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
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Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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