Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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