Oncological Surgeon Quotes & Sayings

LIBRARIES: WHERE SHHH HAPPENS. — Joe Hill

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules. — B.F. Skinner

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important. — Lynne Truss

I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'"
And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer. — Joan Didion

You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first. — Elif Shafak

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is! — August Strindberg