“Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter,”
― The Circular Staircase
― The Circular Staircase
“I was not even aware of getting dressed, which was no simple matter: trousers and shirt, felt boots, over my shirt a leather jerkin, then an overcoat topped by a sheepskin, fur hat, and my bag containing caffeine, camphor, morphine, adrenalin, clamps, sterile dressings, hypodermic, probe, a Browning automatic, cigarettes, matches, watch, stethoscope.”
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
“A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.”
― Twenty Years After
― Twenty Years After
“Ah, what stars there are in the Ukraine. I’ve been living in Moscow almost seven years, but I still feel drawn to my homeland. My heart aches, I get a terrible urge to board a train and be off. To see the cliffs covered in”
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
“they catch initials -- STD, PMS, OCD, HIV, etc., as if MTV teamed up with KFC and licensed the Latin alphabet to the pharmaceutical industry so OTCs could replace MDs. If Romeo and Juliet were alive today, they’d be put on antidepressants, sent for counseling, and bundled off to separate boarding schools to meet socially acceptable partners with money-back guarantees.”
― How to Be a Homeless Frenchman
― How to Be a Homeless Frenchman
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