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"medicine is my legal spouse, whilst literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I go and sleep with the other." -Anton Chekhov

"We are left improvising distractedly, unable to discern our own destinies, unconvinced by our own performances, but hoping that we will be seen by other people as more exciting than we know we really are. " - Louis de Bernieres (from the Forward to Chekhov's Story of Nobody)