Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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 greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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That’s the funny thing about America–the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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