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House, M.D.
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FOX | 22 Episodes | 2004.11.16

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01 If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong

02 There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up

03 Truth begins in lies

04 The most successful marriages are based on lies

05 I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do

06 It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what

07 The problem is, the world doesn't work that way just because you want it to

08 Either God doesn't exist or he's unimaginably cruel

09 People don’t get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There’s nothing any of us can do about it

10 It is in the nature of medicine, that you are gonna screw up. You are gonna kill someone. If you can’t handle that reality, pick another profession or finish medical school and teach

11 Everything is conditional. We just don’t know what the conditions are

12 You talk to God, you’re religious; God talks to you, you’re psychotic

13 Love and happiness are nothing but distractions

14 It’s normal to be screwed up, but it’s really screwed up to romanticize it

15 You took a chance, you did something great. You were wrong, but it was still great. You should feel great that it was great. You should feel like crap that it was wrong

16 You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don’t just run out of answers… you run out hope

17 A unicorn isn’t a unicorn, it’s a donkey with a plunger stuck to its face

18 Even a drunk with a flair for the dramatic can tell himself he’s an angel

19 Patients always want proof, we’re not making cars here, we don’t give guarantees

20 Dying people lie too. Wish they’d worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite

21 Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain

22 We were both wrong, not equally wrong. You were at least six more wronger than me

23 Oxygen is so important during those prepubescent years, don't you think?

24 That's what people say. It's not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were

25 How come God gets credit whenever something good happens? Where was he when her heart stopped?

26 It's worse than that. We don't even know it's a needle we're looking for

27 If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people

28 Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them

29 Figuring out who people are takes time. And it takes twice as much time if they're trying to impress you