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Book cover for Cutting for Stone
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll ...more
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Carol Shields
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
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Abraham   Verghese
“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.”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
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Abraham   Verghese
“Make something beautiful of your life.”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

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