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Richard Selzer quotes: If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

Richard Selzer quotes: The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

Richard Selzer quotes: I never intended to become a writer.

I never intended to become a writer.

Richard Selzer quotes: A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Richard Selzer quotes: The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

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 quotes: There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

Richard Selzer quotes: Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Richard Selzer quotes: You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Richard Selzer quotes: I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Richard Selzer quotes: The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Richard Selzer quotes: The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

Richard Selzer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

Richard Selzer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.