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.
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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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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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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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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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