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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

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Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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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. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

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Geography is destiny.

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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

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We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

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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.

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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

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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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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

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