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“What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?”

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Sharon Creech is an American author renowned for her children's literature. Born on July 29, 1945, she is known for her profound character development and engaging storytelling. more

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”

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Author:Abraham Verghese

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

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Author:Abraham Verghese

“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”

Stills Enough Holes Snakes Slides Serpent

Book:Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?”

People Mind Sides Suicide Cancer Survived Flip Lingering

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?”

Knows Way Giving Heart Hands Cutting Dangerous Hair Ten Kissing Shoes Stealing Witch

Author:Emma Donoghue

“When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.”

People Looks Different Realizing Superiors Peaceful Native Native American American History

Author:Philipp Meyer

“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.”

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Author:Philipp Meyer

“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

Writing Years Firsts Two Three Half Novel Rust Apprentice Half A Year

Author:Philipp Meyer

“Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.”

Jobs Lost Community Down And Upside Down

Author:Philipp Meyer

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