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Dr. Isaacson is a neurologist who specializes in Alzheimer’s disease; Dr. Ochner is a clinical scientist who focuses on nutrition.
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Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from... THE MANSION page 106”
― Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
“Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“She said she loved him and he had no cause to doubt it.
They were like a drug in each other’s veins. A crazy bad-news drug, their hands trembled with the hypo, the needle prodded for an un-collapsed vein.
The drug they used was rare and dangerous with unknown and catastrophic side effects – you couldn’t buy it, it had to be stolen under cover of darkness when other folks were asleep or their attention had wandered.”
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They were like a drug in each other’s veins. A crazy bad-news drug, their hands trembled with the hypo, the needle prodded for an un-collapsed vein.
The drug they used was rare and dangerous with unknown and catastrophic side effects – you couldn’t buy it, it had to be stolen under cover of darkness when other folks were asleep or their attention had wandered.”
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“I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“And Hollywood did what Hollywood does best–it decided against a Disney adaptation of my novel because they thought it might make them look “anti-zoo” (I kid you not.)”
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
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