I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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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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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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