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1 " With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singing " My Liver Belongs to You" and movie houses playing The Liver Is a Lonely Hunter. Every Spanish love song that contains the word corazon, which is all of them, would contain the somewhat less lilting higado, and bumper stickers would proclaim, " I [liver symbol] my Pekingese. "
2 " Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice. "
3 " Envy and respect are not the same things...Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so different from those who conduct autopsies; both want, at some level, to know what has happened, and, by extension, what will happen. Did the liver fail because of the decedent's alcoholism or was some toxin administered? If the deliverer is found, he or she may be imprisoned or, in more honest times, hanged, and thus pose no further threat. Or for the gawker at the accident, espying loose parts not unlike his or her own parts strewn amid wreckage may lead to a sense of awe at death's power, or horror at life's fragility, either of which may be instructive in any number of ways. "
― Christopher Buehlman , The Lesser Dead
4 " My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. "
― Maya Angelou
5 " I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. "
6 " Life loves the liver of it. "