I’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGeography is destiny.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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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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