It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELiterature 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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