Ever since surgery began, man's destiny has been to suffer, in order that he might be cured. And no one can change that, gentlemen....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have become unsure of the rules and unsure of our roles. Parenting, like brain surgery, is now all-consuming, fraught with anxi...ety, worry, and self-doubt. We have allowed what used to be simple and natural to become bewildering and intimidating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this disease that was Swann's love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swann's habits, to all his acts, to ...his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership wi...th someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll tell you something, Doc. Ever since I was born, everybody looks at me and says, "You're ugly." Makes me feel mean.... I'm say...ing, Doc, maybe because I look ugly--maybe if a man looks ugly he does ugly things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »