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"Obviously dated (came out in ‘65, but his Intern training was around ‘57, when I was born) and very gripping story of his intern year as a doctor. I first read it as a Readers Digest condensed book not long after it was published, and this is probably my 2d or 3d reread since then." — Oct 12, 2019 01:32AM
"Obviously dated (came out in ‘65, but his Intern training was around ‘57, when I was born) and very gripping story of his intern year as a doctor. I first read it as a Readers Digest condensed book not long after it was published, and this is probably my 2d or 3d reread since then." — Oct 12, 2019 01:32AM
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"Horribly sad and a damning portrait of the future where pollution of all sorts is destroying the earth. Feels more prophetic now than when I first read it years ago." — Oct 12, 2019 01:25AM
"Horribly sad and a damning portrait of the future where pollution of all sorts is destroying the earth. Feels more prophetic now than when I first read it years ago." — Oct 12, 2019 01:25AM
“The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.”
― My Life as a White Trash Zombie
― My Life as a White Trash Zombie
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
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“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
― Sign of the Unicorn
― Sign of the Unicorn
“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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