Tuesday, October 02, 2012

First Paragraph

One day, before I retired from medical practice in a slum hospital and the prison next door, I asked a patient of mine how he would describe his own character. He paused for a moment, as if savouring a delicious morsel. "I take people as they come," he replied in due course. "I'm very non-judgmental."

- From Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple

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