Anaesthetic Quotes

...today's...newspapers...full of...diminishing exports, the unkillable widening grin of the pullulating East, the expanding machine of the almighty infallible State.... He himself could only turn to the past, but he heard that it was already possible to change the past, bringing the past perpetually up to date, a perpetual jackal fawning on the present, a malleable witness with no qualms about perjury. He knew that the armies were on the march, the Tannoys blaring, the collective mind – tool of oligarchy – being fashioned under the anaesthetic of the catchphrase and the mass entertainment... (Anthony Burgess)
[W]hen he came out of the anaesthetic the first thing he said was, 'What a man Ernesto would be if he could only write. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face. View quote
Maeve Binchy
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. View quote
Helen Rowland