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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Abraham Verghese

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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