"Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art."

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"Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art."

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"Smiling reduces blood pressure by lowering the stress-inducing hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. As my mother, who is now in her eighties, navigates the challenges of aging, her mantra has become, "Keep moving and keep smiling. She has observed the rapid decline of her friends who haven't. She is striving to stay strong, happy, and vital; her desire to smile is helping her to live a healthier, more satisfying, and longer life."

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

Literature

"The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult."

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"He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them."

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"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."

Authorship

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."

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"Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it."

Learning

"Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone."

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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

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"She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card."

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"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."

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