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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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