"Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted"

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Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

Abraham Verghese

#Home Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press
“It's kind of a funny world we live in today with tabloids and all. I feel there's so much negativity out there and people sense that people only want to read things that either are controversial or negative, therefore you end up dealing with people lying about your life and having to answer to things that become ridiculous with an onslaught of lies and you have to answer to them.”
“To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.”
“People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.”
“I have some really, really good friends, to whom I'm very close, that I'm not revealing anything to, and that's really hard.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.”
“You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.”

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