Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. - Elizabeth Bear - Quotesmemo.com

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Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

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Elizabeth Bear

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

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The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another

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The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

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Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Able, Beauty, Frustration, Knows, Lifetime

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

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Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

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I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone. . . truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

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I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious. " "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious. ". . . "Yeah," I say. "So have I.

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