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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
— Floyd Skloot
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
— Rebecca Skloot
Quoted a local woman, Courtney Speed, who owned a grocery
— Rebecca Skloot
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.
— Douglas Coupland
Put no expectations on others, only on yourself. If you put no expectations on others they can not disappoint you.
— Samantha Price
Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her
— Rebecca Skloot
Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge.
— Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta's cells have now been living outside her body far longer than they ever lived inside it,
— Rebecca Skloot
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ay, is it not a language I speak?
— William Shakespeare
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.
— Rebecca Skloot
if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors?
— Rebecca Skloot
When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
— Floyd Skloot
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
— George Takei
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
— Alexander Smith
People butcher history all the time,
— Rebecca Skloot
As in all good training, in the end it doesn't much matter who trained whom; we all got what we wanted.
— Rebecca Skloot
Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
— Floyd Skloot
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
— Floyd Skloot
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
— Richard Bach
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
— William Collins
Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
— Floyd Skloot
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
— Rebecca Skloot
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
— Floyd Skloot
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
— Floyd Skloot
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
— Rebecca Skloot
I keep with me all I know about you deep in my soul, because I am part of you, and you are me.
— Rebecca Skloot
A casual observer can testify only to the moment. And what one sees will always be colored by what one longs to see.
— Rebecca Skloot
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
— Alain Ducasse
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
— William Stanley Jevons
For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
— Rebecca Skloot
