Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEGod will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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