Peter B. Medawar

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    Lucas: You’re the Democratic nominee for Senator.
    John McKay: You make that sound like a death sentence.
    Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Lucas (Peter Boyle)

    Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
    —Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)

    Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won’t do. It’s an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    —Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)