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““I felt that the last thing he needed was the obligation to service a new friendship.””

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“operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications. But I could see that the idea of brain surgery terrified her, more than most. She was lonesome and in a strange place, having been swept…

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“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”

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“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also…

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“...but every day felt full of life, and of the relationships that give life meaning.”

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“I struggled, while facing my own death, to rebuild my old life—or perhaps find a new one.”

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“My imagined future and my personal identity collapsed.”

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“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,”

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“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can explain the sublime better than this, standing between day and night. It was as if this were the moment God said, “Let there be light!” You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the…

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“I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador. I had to help those families understand that the person they knew—the full, vital independent human—now lived only in the past and that I needed their input to understand what sort of future he or she would want: an easy death or to be strung…

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“A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best…

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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

Anonymous

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad…

Maureen Andeson

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

Russell Howard

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Alice Walker

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Friends are like stars you can't always see them, but you know they're there.

Unknwon

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I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

Hoodie Allen

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If you love some one for who they are not for there body or how many friend so when you say I love you…

Unknow

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“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad wrecks through my life, date after bad date after bad boyfriend. She was the one who'd picked up the pieces after the musician, the investment banker, the humanitarian who was human to everyone but me. When…

Lauren Groff