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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

Abraham Verghese

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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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