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

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Abraham Verghese

#Shows Quotes #Love To Read Quotes #Willing Quotes

“There are no victims, only volunteers.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.15, Morgan James Publishing
“I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.”

Source : Jeri Smith-Ready (2009). “Wicked Game”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”
“Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalistâ€™s work.”
“Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.”

Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”

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