Greg O'Brien > Quotes

“If your brain functioned like a digital video recorder, it could hold more than three million hours of TV shows, enough video storage for 300 years. Not bad for a mass the size of an average head of cabbage,”
― Greg O'Brien, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's

“Alzheimer's is not about the past - the successes, the accolades, the accomplishments. They offer only context and are worthless on places like Pluto. Alzheimer's is about the present and the struggle, the scrappy brawl, the fight to live with a disease. It's being in the present, the relationships, the experiences, which is the core of life, the courage to live in the soul.”
― Greg O'Brien, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's

“Dr. Daley gently asked my father if he was prolonging life or death: “If life is a desire to live in some quality, real or imagined, then one is prolonging life,” she said. “But if life is fear of death, then one is prolonging death.”
― Greg O'Brien, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's

“Death is a muscle memory that one never forgets.”
― Greg O'Brien

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― Greg O'Brien, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's

“Alzheimer’s is an enormous, uncontrollable, expensive disease with the power to overwhelm an individual or family with the stereotype that nothing can be done to make it easier, but we know that this is not true.”
― Greg O'Brien, On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's