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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

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In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I w...more

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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

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Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadom...more

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and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want th...more

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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

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Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her.But as she walked the final twenty paces,she ...more

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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty pace...more

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The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it ...more

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A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bar...more

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There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

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In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...