Quotes from Michael Palmer

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

You must have me confused with myself

The world can be hard, full of trickery, Full of deceit, Full of injustice, Full of pain. But there is an emptiness waiting, my friend--a great glowing emptiness, Soft and fragrant with the essence of peace, The essence of serenity. You are almost there, my friend. The magnificent emptiness is the eternal harbor for your soul. Take my hand, friend. Take my hand and take a step, just one more step, And you are there.

Prior to their discovery in 1917, phages had been linked to miracle waters—rivers in India and other places with the power to cure diseases from leprosy to cholera. Only later did scientists, examining a naturally occurring treatment for dysentery, discover these "cures" were phages, feasting on and eradicating the disease-causing bacteria.

The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor.

Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.

Já vím, kamaráde. Snažím se tohle všechno nezapomínat, ale je to stejn? snadné jako sprchovat slona ve van?." "Hezká p?edstava, ale já mám spíš dojem, že sprchujeme hejno opic.

When you're becoming overwhelmed, just make a list. Make a list and do one thing at a time.

You mean that's your idea of desire, with all those commas?

country highway. He sensed that he was

The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.

From the moment the doors of a hospital open for the first time and the first patient is treated, the facility acquires a pulse and begins to develop a personality as unique as any individual's. It fumbles and grows, learning from its mistakes. It stretches and explores, reaching out more and more to the world around it. Its organs decay and need repair or replacement. Its moods - the collective moods of its patients and employees - grow more distinctive.

I can't make myself be happy but I can always make myself not be miserable. - Dr. Lou Welcome

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might have been teleported to the

an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon

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Te îndr?goste?ti de ea? - E prea devreme s? îmi dau seama.