The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks. -Dr. Richard Selzer

 

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Dr. Richard Selzer quotes in our collection. Dr. Richard Selzer is known for saying 'The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.' as well as some of the following quotes.

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

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I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. -Dr. Richard Selzer
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The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

Dr. Richard Selzer
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A minor operation is one that is done on someone else.

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I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. -Dr. Richard Selzer
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The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

Dr. Richard Selzer
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