Richard Selzer

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"No one can take your dignity from you; you might throw it away yourself, but no one can take it away from you." Leonard in " Fetishes," Taking the World in For Repairs.

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"Love . . . cannot be elected or declined. Like illness, it comes, and that is that." The Black Swan Revisited, Id, p. 98.

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"Killing of any kind has its contagious aspects." How to Build A Slaughterhouse, Id., p. 126.