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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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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 love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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