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Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Physician
University Teacher
Writer
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Love
Stay
Brilliantly
Told
Tale
Modern
Loyalty
Rich
Tales
Secret
Indian
Read
Lovely
Family
Ground
Loyalties
Must
Broken
Evocative

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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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.'
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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