Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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