He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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