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"I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on."
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"Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life."
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"Exercise feels best after it is finished."
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"It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people."
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"Distress is a disease of the mind."
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"Health and happiness are interconnected."
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"Bitterness is the cancer of bones."
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"Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness."
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"Overwork can cause a break down."
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"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."
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"Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it."
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"I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me."
Life


"Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another."
Ethics


"Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse."
Justice


"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."
Love


"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
Learning


"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
Philosophy


"The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to."
Life


"I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on."
Health


"I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing."
Art


"Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child."
Relationship
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