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If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.
— Richard Selzer
I never intended to become a writer.
— Richard Selzer
If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.
— Jean Baudrillard
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
— Richard Selzer
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
— George Bernard Shaw
The symbologist made a cryptic sign. That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.
— Jack Vance
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
— Richard Selzer
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
— Robin Black
I try to take my interests and make them my work.
— George A Tice
Scared people either shut down and avoid the thing they fear, or get angry at it and lash out.
— Leisa Rayven
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
— Richard Selzer
A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.
— Richard Selzer
What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen.
— Thomas Lewis
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
— Richard Selzer
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
— Jonathan Swift
The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.
— Richard Selzer
I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.
— David Foster Wallace
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
— Richard Selzer
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
— Richard Selzer
There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.
— Richard Selzer
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.
— Richard Selzer
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
— Richard Selzer