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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.

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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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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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