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"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."
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"Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant."
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"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."
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"I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field."
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"Doctors is all swabs."
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"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
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"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."
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"The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile."
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"So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously."
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"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."
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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before-in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested."
Social
"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
Music
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
Storytelling
"You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."
Social
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC."
Faith
"When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist."
Death
"I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody.They may be teaching that still.Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, 'You know " you never wrote a story with a villain in it.'I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war."
Education
"Flashlight beams danced crazily."
Imagination
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