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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.

Abraham Verghese

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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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