Abraham Verghese Quotes

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese

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Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Jim Crace

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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

Joan D. Vinge

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If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

Andrew Forrest

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Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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I like to dominate 100 percent. I don't want to just beat you - I want to wear you down.

Matt Harvey

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In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

John Wells

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Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Amanda Eliasch

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We are the hero of our own story.

Mary McCarthy

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I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

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I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

Josh Hutcherson

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Simple is the only way I can write.

Don Gibson

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