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"This book is more interesting than one would expect of a heavy-duty book about medicine. I have learned a lot about the history of the battle against cancer, which, of course, is deeply entwined with the history of medicine. Cancer apparently goes back to the beginning of the human species. Early treatments and research was often gruesome but fascinating." — Feb 21, 2018 10:27AM
"This book is more interesting than one would expect of a heavy-duty book about medicine. I have learned a lot about the history of the battle against cancer, which, of course, is deeply entwined with the history of medicine. Cancer apparently goes back to the beginning of the human species. Early treatments and research was often gruesome but fascinating." — Feb 21, 2018 10:27AM
“I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!”
“Hush John,” Florida said. “That’s only phantom pain.”
“Is it real?” I asked her.
She shrugged. “All pain is real.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“Hush John,” Florida said. “That’s only phantom pain.”
“Is it real?” I asked her.
She shrugged. “All pain is real.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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