You live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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