Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. —Voltaire”
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point.”
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.”
― The Blinding Knife
― The Blinding Knife
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