Quotes by Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they on — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a st — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus i — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aph — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even i — Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales