Severe Chronic Neutropenia

Famous quotes containing the words severe and/or chronic:

“The Harmless Torturers. In the Bad Old Days, each torturer inflicted severe pain on one victim. Things have now changed. Each of the thousand torturers presses a button, thereby turning the switch once on each of the thousand instruments. The victims suffer the same severe pain. But none of the torturers makes any victim’s pain perceptibly worse.”
—Derek Parfit (b. 1943)

“Only then can the chronic inattention
Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)