"My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore."

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"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

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"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."

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"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."

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"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

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"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."

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"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."

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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

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"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

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"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."

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"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

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"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers."

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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

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"By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients."

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"I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body."

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"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."

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