Richard Selzer - Body Quotes

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Korea. The name reminded him of a disease, chorea, characterized by aimless jerky movements of the body: St.Vitus Dance.

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I came by the horror naturally. Surgery is the one branch of medicine that is the most violent. After all, it's violent to take up a knife and cut open a person's body and rummage around with your hands. I think I was attracted to the horrific.

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The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing. If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

Richard Selzer

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

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When bombs are falling and grenades are being thrown, the body is in the business of burrowing, ducking, scurrying.

Richard Selzer

One enters the body in surgery, as in love, as though one were an exile returning at last to his hearth, daring uncharted darkness in order to reach home.

Richard Selzer