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Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. -- Karen Thompson Walker
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks. -- Jack Nicklaus
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated. -- David A. Bednar
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. -- Jules Verne
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. -- Jennifer Gilmore
Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records of turkey tail brewed as medicinal tea date from the early 15th century, during the Ming Dynasty in China. -- Paul Stamets
For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. -- Elliott Abrams
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. -- Seneca the Younger
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. -- Martin Luther
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. -- Thomas Carlyle
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells. -- Martin Luther
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. -- Harvey Williams Cushing
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. -- Harvey Williams Cushing
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. -- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. -- Socrates
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. -- Oscar Wilde
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals. -- David Duke
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. -- Norman Douglas
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious. -- Marcel Proust
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. -- Charles Wagner

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