QUOTATIONS - IMPORTANT QUOTES AND ANALYSIS

 

The following quotations are important at various points of the story (Random House, New York, 2003):

1. That guy's a fuckin' saint.

(pg. 16; This comment is made by a homeless man named Joe in Boston who only wants to take his AIDS medication and drink a six-pack of beer every day. Farmer gets him the beer.)

2. I feel ambivalent about selling my services in a world where some can't buy them. You can feel ambivalent about that, because you should feel ambivalent. Comma.

(pg. 24; Farmer said this when Kidder asked him if he shouldn't be compensated for what he does.)

3. Farmer narrates Haiti.

(pg. 28; This is how describes his explanations which bring forth his drawing of a moral about the suffering of.........

......25. The world changed yesterday.

(pg. 299; Jim Kim writes this to Kidder when WHO finally adopted new prescriptions for dealing with MDR-TB.)

 

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