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“We have not slain our enemy, the cancer cell, or figuratively torn the limbs from his body,” Varmus said. “In our adventures, we have only seen our monster more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways—ways that reveal a cancer cell to be, like Grendel, a distorted version of our normal selves.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse,” pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many”
― Bill Wasik, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin