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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.

Abraham Verghese

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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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 seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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