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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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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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