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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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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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