The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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