Quotes by Jacob M. Appel

About Jacob M. Appel:

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. Born in the Bronx and raised in Scarsdale, New York, Appel is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia. Appel's novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012.
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Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

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Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

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Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

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Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

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Starshine’s greatest challenge is deciding whether a woman is too young to soothe or too old to shame. Handling the men is much easier. They may feign interest in figures and photos, but their underlying interest is for breasts and thighs. A genero...

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Battery Park resonates with lust as the sun approaches its zenith. A primal impulse takes hold of the young couples strolling the gravel walkways, the newlyweds who have paused to admire DeModica’s bronze bull, the truant teens laid out on the cool...

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One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy.

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Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

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Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

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Know your load. That’s rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I’m not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando two birds short of a dinner party....I know I’m pulli...

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A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

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Another family crisis: The rabbit goes blind.

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Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

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This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

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Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

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I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing....

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The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

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Author Bio

  • NameJacob M. Appel
  • DescriptionAmerican author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
  • BornFebruary 21, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian; Novelist; Writer; Playwright; Medical Writer; Human Rights Activist